Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 13, 1889, Page 4

" BRE. NG, THE DAILY PUBLISHED KV iAot TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, B ally Morning Edition) inclnding Sunday. Bee, One Year W o3 it Leutsiv O orsix Months 5 r'Thre & Mont 2 The Omaha Sun whdress, O At . 2 el ne Y ear Omnna Oflce, e butiding, N. W, Beventeenth and Farnam Strests, tookery Building. on, Kooms 14 and 15 Tribune ' ng. Washington Office, No. 513 Four- teenth Streot. CORRESPONDENCE, All communications relating to news and edi- forinl matter should be addressed to the Editor f the Bee. e BUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and_remittances "shonid Bo wddressed to The fos Publishing Company. Omahn Jrafts, ehecks and postoflice orders to e made payable to the order of the company. The Bz Pablisking Company, Proprictorse 2 ROSEWATER, Editor. fiee, mailed to” any THE 1LY BEE. Sworn Statement of Oiroulation. nte of Nobraska, | "‘ ounty of Douglas, { ** (George B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub- shingCompany, dovs solemn(y swear that the actusl circulation of THE DAILY BEE for the week ending June 8 1950, was as follo o LIR506 95 Bl + 18600 18617 Average........ Wiiasseeee a0 AHR08 GEOKGE B. TZSCHUCK. Evorn to before me and subscribed to in my resence this Sth day of June, A. D, 1889, Soul. N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. State of Nebraska, | County_of Douglas, | %% George i, Taschul being duly sworn, de- Totes tnd says tiat ho s sectetary of Tho ies Publis Company, that the actual average The l'\mlrv Beo for the 242 coples: for July, 1! 53 cople: daily circulation of month of June, 18, 1Y, 1688, 18,03 copies : for Au for Reptember, 1584 18,154 coples: October, s, 1184 coples; 'foF November, 1858, 18,08 tor December, 188, 18,223 copies; for 1880, 18,574 coples: for February, 189, 18,006 coples; for March, 1880, 18,554 copres: f April, I)Ell. 18650 coples: for May, 150, 18,600 coples. GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK. worn to before me and subscribed in my {Senl.] ~ proseaco this dd day of Juno, A. D 0 N. P. FEIL, Notary Public, st, or ’lechIort.W (II the Cronin tragedy thickens. OPPOSITION to annexation in South Omaha is confined to the politicians. This is one of the best possible argu- ments in favor of it. ASPIRANTS for city and county offices must begin to kill off a few of their fool friends if they hope to succeed. The early bird is liable to catch more mil- dew than worms betore election day. THERE is e a taint to the moral atmosphere of Denver wheun the chief of police, a lieutenant and a num- ber of patrolmen and detectives have been indicted for corruption. Tir foreman of the Cronin coroner’s jury is an experienced insurance ad- juster, and that explains how it came about that the witnesses on the stand were pumped so thoroughly. E— Tue delegation will be ready soon to doa “land omfice business.” But will tho hold-over land officers be equally ready to be ‘‘done.” That is the ques- tion which is stirring a hundred patriot hearts in Nebraska to the core THREE inches of rain last week did more to clean Omaha streets than three weeks of street ‘sweeping. It scoured out several layers of dirt in the gutters, which are made the receptacle for the sweepings of the contractors machiunes, THE board of education has no funds to pay for junketing and lobbying com- mittees to Lincoln or any other place. It isa bad precedent to allow sucha claim, no matter how small it may be. If sanctioned by the board it isan en- tering wedge into extravagance, and is sure to lead to abuses in the future. WHEN the motors start to mote and promised cable begins to glide up and down the grades, Omuaha will have a net- work of transportation lines equal to that of any city of its size in the coun- try. Up to date, unfortunately, the greater part of the system has been run by wind power. % ‘Wirn bleeding Kansas pouring her dry and unemployed laborers upon us from the south and injured Towa doing the same on the east, it is only a won- der that there are so few men out of jobs in Omaha. Over a thousand m chanies from the two states have emi grated to Nobraska this spring. SouTH OMAHA us a city of the first class will pay liberally for the title. In- creased taxation, additional officehold- ers and improved facilities for jobbery are the main features of the new law, without any visible benefits. A few months of this system will make annex- stion desirable and necessary. THE suspicion is gaining ground that the Kansas City puving firm took the paving contracts lower than they could be done for the purpose of selling out to the next highest bidder at a good round sum. The guarantee check for two thousand dollars could well be for- foited and still leave a fat profit. There isn big sized darkey somewhere in that rock pile. Tue petition sent to the council by the various telegraph, telephone, street car, electric light and other companies using overhead electric wires usking the feasibility of the city of Omaha putting in a general conduitsystem and leasing the use of it at a reasonable price to them is a proposition which the couneil should seriously entertain. There can be little question but that bonds could be voted for the purpose and that the investment would prove both profitable to the city and satisfac- tory to all parties concerned. —— Tuk shippers of Omaha do not ask the Union Pacific to maintain its two mil- lion dollar bridge for nothing. But when the Union Pacific has wrung out of the people of Omaha and of Nebraska for seventeen years the weight of the bridge in gold, and still waintains its solfish policy of keoping out of this city the lines anxious to cross the bridge at a reasonable rateand of charging ten dollars for evory car lond that crosses the structure, it is high time to question General Trafic Manager Mellen’s *mod- est bridge tolis.” A CHATRMAN CHOSEN. The (emoctatio national committee has olected Mr. Calvin 8. Brice its chairman, This action was not unex- pected. For several weeks, or since it became known that Senator Gorman, of Maryland, was not a candidate, there has been little doubt that® Mr. Brice would be selected, There was at least one strong point in his favor, the fact that he is very wealthy and can be re- lied on to be generous in political con- tributions, In the last presidential contest Mr. Brice was chairman of the demo- cratic campaign- committee. For n man of very limited political cxperience he did very well in that po- sition, At the outset he did some things to have been expected of a no- vice in political management, and early received the gobriquet of “the rainbow chaser,” but he rapid improved, and before the campaign was half ovor set- tled down to the work inn way that not n great many vetorans could have sur- pussed, There was a suspicion that Mr. Brice was not ardently devoted to Mr. Cleve land and his special policy, but there can be no doubt that he most earnestly desired the success of his party, and worked as hard and faithfully to that end as any man could have done. Hisstanding in dem- ocratic confidence is fully established by his election as chairman of the national committee. Mr. Brice has been supposed to be par- tial to Governor Hill as the next canai date of the democratic party for pre dent. It is therefore not unlikely that his being placed at the head of the na- tional committee will be regarded as a move favorable to Hill. In an inter- view a few days ago Mr. Randall pre- dicted the election ef Brice and stated vhat it would have no significance what- ever with respect to the presidential chances of either Cleveland or Hill, Nevertheless it is not questiona- ble that the tariff views of Mr. Brice are more in accord with those of the governor than with those of the ex- president. He is largely interested in railronding, manufacturing and mining, and is in sympathy with the Randall- Gorman olement of the party rather than ethe Carlisle-Mills wing. if the supporters of Mr. Cleveland propose to run him again on the platform of last yenr, it is by no means improbable that they will have the opposition of Mr. Brice. Mr. Brice has political ambition. He is looking toward the United States: senate, and should the dem- ocrats of Ohio secure the legislature next fall he would undoubtedly make a vigorous effort to succeed Senator Payne, who it is now understood will in no event again be a candidate. Mr. Brice will hardly be so efficient a chair- man of the democratic national com- mittee as was his predecessor, the late William H. Barnum, who was a poli- ticiau of long experience and great skill and shrewdness. But Mr. Brice will pay liberally for the honor, and this will cover a multitude of shortcom- ings as a political manager. His selec- tion will cause no regret among repub- licans. ABSURD TWADDLE. The absurd Herald devotes an entire column to the removal of Judge Sandford from the Federal bench in Utah. Tt informs its readers that the president is linble to impeachment for stating to the judge that his administration of justice *‘was not in harmony with the policy he deemed proper to be pursued in reference to Utah affairs,” and for openly removing him for this cause. Could anything be more ridiculous? The Herald knows as well as any of its readers that the cause of Judge Sand- ford’s removal and the soie cause was his policy toward offenders under the IEdmunds act, * which has been maintained for the past three years against the protests of the Utah com- mission and the remonstrances of the strongest citizens of Utah. It knows or ought to know, if itdoes not that during his senatorial term President Harrison. as chairman of the committee on ter! tories, had a distinctly marked policy on Utah matters -which was, after all, only the policy of the conservative peo- pie of the country bent upon sceing the laws rigidly administered. It was highly proper and manly in the president in removing Judge Sandford 10 state frankly and openly that as his policy in Utah was to be on the lines of a rigid enforcement of the laws he did not feel that Judge Sundford was the man for the place. Any citizen of Salt Lake knew just what that meant. Judge Sandford knew what it meant, and the neatly turned periods of his correspond- ence, written with a view to subsequent publication, did not change the situa- tion. AMERICA AT PARIS. American pride will be unpleasantly affccted by the statement that the ex- hibit of the United States at the Paris exposition is disappointing. There are features of it that are unsurpussed, but as a whole it does not do credit to the country, and, in the inevitable compari- sons made, the groat re public is not al- ways ahead. Perhaps it was not to be expected that it would be, but on the other hand there was every reason why the industrial interests of the United States should have made extraorainary efforts to exce! all other countries, or int least to make their display | complete with their very best pro- ductions. It was an opportunity of which the fullest advantage should have been taken, from s purely practi- cal and selfish standpoint. Congress made liberal provision for a thorough exhibit, There was a special incentive in the character of the exposition as commemorative of the first French re- public, and there was the certainty that all Europe would be represented among the visitors to Paris, Nover has this country had a better chance to put its best foot forward in the matter of show- ing the world what it had and what it can do, and it is natter for regret that it did not fully improve the chance, The feature in which tho American | exhibit is distinetly superior is that of machinery, but in the industris! sec- tions the English ave far ahead of us. This is explained, theugh the exnlana- the fact that the English are but thirty miles away, 80 to spenk, where we are three thousand miles distant. But dis- tance really counts for very little, and the superior excellence of the English industrial exhibit is the more to be com- mended because it is entirely the result of private enterprise, not a ponny hav- | public | very | out* of of the ing beon funds. contributed It is one rare instances in which English- men have shown greater enter- prise than Americans,and they deserve full credit for it and all the advantage | it can give them. ““What fow seatter- ing hits our people do make in this ex- hibition,” remarks a Paris cormespond- ent, ‘are solely due to individual inge- nuit) prise. It is nothing short of humiliat- ing to see the whole industrinl ropre- sentation of our country de upon these, to realize that in this world competition we measure up against England about as Canada measured against us at Philadelphia in 18° But for the great electrieal exhihit made by Edison and the superior char- acter of the American maching tion, in which nearly everything ited is novel and illustrates an advance, the United States would play a quite in- significant part in the Paris exposition. The fact is unfortunate, if not ¢ redit- able, and the benefit the country should have derived will be lost. A PHILANTHROPIST'S GIFT. The presentation to the military academy at West Point of portraits of Grant, Sherman and Sheridan was very characteristic of Mr. George W. Childs, the editor philanthropist of the Phila- delphin Ledger. It has been given, perhaps, to few men in this country to scatter unobtrusively so many seeds of kindness, to assist where assistance was most needed such a number of poor and deserving men and woman, with no dis- play of generosity, or to gather around him so many and such a large circle of friends attracted by his great-hearted- nass and simplicity of character. In several respects Mr. Childs is a unique figure among tho prominent characters of our day. A successful editor and publisher, he has amassed a great fortune, and built up a great paper on lines of such rigid con- servatism thut his journal stands alone in those features which make it the most solidly substantial investment in the Quaker City. Amid all the strug- gles of state and national politics, amidst local brawls and class controver- sies, the Ledger has pursued the even tenor of its way, standing up boldly for its ideas of right and wroug, and draw- ing to its support the best elements of the community which were sure of its integrity of purpose because 1t was dominated by the honest heart and strong will of Philadelphia’s most prom- inent and best beloved citizen. A cap- italist in whose defense his employes would willingly die, a banker whose good fortune the meanest mechanic does not envy, a wealthy man who uses hi wealth as a trust for the beunefit of his poorer fellows and a philanthropist whose . benefactions flow in silent streams daily throughout the countr; Mr. Childs isentitled to the warmly- fectionate utter: name whenever it is mentioned among those who know best his worth and ap- preciate his simplicity and sturdy hon- esty of chavacter. TAKING TANGIBLE SHAPE. No better evidence could be desired of the future importance of West Far- nam street as a main artery of business than vhe proposal of Hon. A. J. Hans- com to subscribe 850,000 toward the erection of the proposed million-dollar hotel on that thoroughfare. Mr. Hanscom has always been known as one of the most careful, prudent and far seeing financiers in the city. He has never invested his money unless it was certain to produce a fair income. When Mr. Hanscom volunteers to sub- seribe $50,000 toward the evection of a fire proof million-dollar hotel it shows that he confidently believ: the mvestment will pRy. The street on which Mr. Hanscom pro- poses to erect the mammoth structure is that already made noted by a dozen of almost the finest buildings in the coun Mr. Hanscom is able to make good his offer. In order to put it into effect, he insists upon two conditions only; first, that the right men shall take hold of the enterprise, and, second, that the scheme shall engender no hard feelings. If the enterprise should be under- taken, there is little doubt among those who are already pledged to the scheme, that nothing would be left undone to secure only good men to join in the undertaking. It is also believed that no hard feeling could be aroused because the future of Omaha, requiring such an hotel, would silence whatever objection might be made by those now directly interested in the same business. Mr. Hanscom's offer has been warmly commended by every citizen who has heard of 1t, and there is Little to be feared that it will be an incentive to other capitalists to embark in the great enterprise. ‘With a million-dollar hotel on West Ifarnam strect, the array of mammoth, beautiful and costly structures on that thoroughiare might well challenge the admiration of the citizens of the country. — TnxRre is every indication that the meeting of delegates of all boards of trade through the state at Omaha on June 20, will be largely attended and will lead to much good. It will be the first time that the busines:z men of Ne- braska, through their representative bodies, will take action to work in barmony for the welfare of the state. The meeting will be beneficial in bringing out the needs of different sec- tons and in pointing out the ways and means to secure themw, The couvention moreover will be able to determine upon o general plan of action, It will soften conflicting interests and local jealousies and ereate of feeling of unity in labor- ing for & common cause. IFor that reason every city in the state should be properly represented and be heard. THE movement of the Omaha board | of trade for a convention of representa- tives of all commercial organizations in i tion is not altogether satisfuctory, by | the state is heartily commended in all ! gections. | towns showd#fat a lively interest is artistio taste, pluck and enter- | pendont | Kd¥ces from a number of manifested, A1 large and influential gathering fy bonfidently expected in this city on the 26th st. Thoe object of the meoting commends itself to overy city in the state. Matters of vital im- portance tothe people will be con- sideroed, and moasures adopted to av vertise the sdvantages of the state for settlers nnd ifivestors. Animated with the best of tholives, the commercial or- gunizations, spediking as one man, can not fall to accomplish much good for the state. Make the convention a rous- ing and representative one. A CHANGE has been maae in, the management of the South Omaha stock- yards which cannot fail to be benefi- cial. The selection of Me. W. N. Bab- cock by the executive board to succeed Manager Boyd brings into that position a gentleman thovoughly familiar with freight rates and the intricacies of the transportation problem. Just such n man has long been needed at the South Omaha stockyards. Without disparag- ing the services of Manager Boyd, who has been closely identified with the stockyards since their incipiency, it is an open secret that the yards are not getting their full quota of hogs and cattle due to the fact that the management has not been sufficiently vigilant in protect- ing $hippers against the imposition of the railroads. Mr. Babeock, as general agent of the Northwestern railroad, is thoroughly conversant with that ques- tion, and his experience as a railroad map will come into good stead as the manager of the Omaha stockyards. He should not alone be able to arrange bot- ter transportation rates, but should be able to secure prompt and efficient con- nections on all lines carrying stock into Omaha. Tue decision of the executive board of the Inter-State Railway association favorable to the demand of the Chicago & Alton road for a division of the liv stock traflic of the St. Paul road, has been promptly acquieseed in by the lat- ter company. The excellent spirit shown in the communication anunounc- ing the acceptance of the decision by the St. Paul ought to have a good effect uppn other companies in the association, and it is a very palpa- ble rebuke to the action of the Alton officials in disregarding the decision ad- verse to them in the matter of lowering lumber rates between Chicago and the Missouri river. It the ‘‘gentlemen’s agrecment” is to amount to anything, there must be, prompt and cheerful re- spect paid to the decisions rendered under it. Mr. RANDALL expects conservative tariff legislation from the next con- gress, “'not over protective, nor even highly protective, but sufficient to pro- tect the labor of the United States from the lower wages of Burope.” Still the same stale pretense. The industcies of England ave at the high tide of pr perity, while in’this country iron mills are closed, and those 1w operation do not find a market for half their pro- duct, vet so intelligent a man as Mr, Randall talks of protecting our labor from the lower wages of Europe. It is impossible to say what the Penu vama statesman would regard as a con n- tive tariff, but he makes an unlooked-for and welcome concession in recommend- ing an enlarged free list and a reduc- tion in the tariff. Tne British and Canadian govern- ments have decided on an elaborate sys- tem of forts to be built on the western shores of British Columbia. The forts will extend from Esquimault, the head- quarters of the British North Pacific squadron, to Victoria, and work will begin this year. These preparations, coupled with the announcement of the home government that orders had been viaced for heavy armament for these forts, indicates the determi- nation of Great Britain to strengthen her hold on North Americea, It a significant answer to those confiding statesmen who 1magine that Canada is ready to join the union of states, and gives a black eye to the movement for commercial reciprocity. ANoTHER of the new war vessels of the American navy is practically ready and will be given a prelimina trial this week. This vessel, the Baltimore, is far superior in size, speed and battery power to any of the new vessels thus far completed. A special point of interést is the fact that she is built after the plans purchased by Secretary Whitney from the English ship-builders, Sir Wil- liam G. Armstrong & Co., the design Dbaving been made by a then employe of the firm who is now chief constructor of the British navy. The Baltimore is one of the finest war ships afloat, and of course will bo equipped with the latest appliances to make her effective. THE organization of a company of English and American capitalists, with fifteen million dollars capiwl, to de- velop the tin mines at Harney’s Peak, Dakota, and erect works for the manu- facture of tin plate, gives assurance that the tin industry is speedily to re- ceive a boom in this country, It 1s un- derstood to be the intention of this com- pany to construct works at several points, Chicagoprobably being one. s it not practicable to present the claims of Omaha as an, gligible point for one of these establishments? The martter is certainly worthy of consideration, and is commended 39’ the attention of vhose members of the board of trade who are charged with the duty of furthering the industrial interests of the city. Tuk people of Niobrara have sent a committee to Chicago to urge the ex- tension of the Northwestern road from Verdigrie to Niobrara, and of the Omaha road from Hartington to Yank- ton. These extensions aggregate ahout fifty miles, and are extremely important to the surrounding .country. There is no doubt that the company is seriously considering the construction of the lines, the only difficulty being the ne-— cessity and cost of a bridge over the river at Yankton. If the committed succeeds in inducing the company to undertake the work the result will be highly beneficlal, commercially, to Omahn, north Nebraska and southern Dakota. FEARS are expréssed by the banking journals of the country that the bank examiners of Nebraska to be appointed undoer the new banking law will not be men having practical knowledge of the banking business, It behooves the proper authorities to sce to it that in the execution of the law, the influence of politics and of private bankers not in good standing bo entirely eliminated. There is every reason to beliove the banking law a carefully framed mons- ure, and-if honestly enforeed by capable men it will protect the people against wild-cat schemes and nsure to Nebras- ka a consorvative banking system. IN an intoresting interview published elsewhere, Major John M. Carson, the veteran Washington correspondent of the Philadelphin Ledger, tells tho story of how Grant, Sherman and Sheridan roceived the idea of having their por- traits hung on the walls of the military academy nt West Poiny, where they re- ceived their education. Major Carson represented Mr. Childs on this ocension, doubtless ns ably as he represents Mr. Childs’ great journal in the national capits ON the authority of the Munufactur- ors’ (Fazefte it is stated that the cost of water power for manufacturing pur- poses in the leading towns aad cities of New England is about equal to that of steam, and that steam power is gradu- ally supplanting water powerin the fac- tories of Lowell, Dover, Manchester and other places, This would certainly in- dicate that water has lost its once boasted cheapness as a motive power, and that where fuel is abundant steam is preferable. THE visit of the officiels of the North- western road to the Black Hills indi- cates important changes in the railroad. The extension of the company’s lines from Whitewood to Deadwood can not be much longerdelayed. Competition will- force it. The activity of rival lines ex- tending in that direction insure early rail communication with the leading mining camps in the Hills. IN spite of Kicking Thunder, Mad Horse, Biting Wolf, Two Strike, and a few other chronic objectors with names as suggestive, the Sioux commis- sion carried Rosebud agency by a large majority. The bars are now down. and the Indians of the other res- ervations will not be slow to follow the lead. NEW York does not bank much on monuments, but when it comes to help- ing the vietims of misfortune she is peerless, In five days five hundred thousand dollars we subscribed by her citizens for the relief of the Penn- sylvania flood sufferers. S s in great de- mand as a F He is in receipt of forty invitations to pluck the feathers of Lthe proud bird, but de- clined them all. Chauncey has a whole- some fear of the Massachusetts syndi- cate of speech peddlers. MoNT will be the first to try the new fangled plan of voting under the Australinn system in October. And it is dollars to dougunnuts that the de- feated party will demand the law’s re- peal, as a delusion and a snare. XAS still has something like four million, seven hundred thousand acres of land to give away for the mere ask- ing, and that is why nobody has been found to lead a mad rush for a home- stead in the lone star state. Wny Riddleberger is Mentioned. Chicago Tribune. All this tallc of Riddleverger as a possible consul at some forcign port has probably grown out of his recogulzed need of a post of some kind—to lean up against. Tragedies. g0 Times, Lawrence Barrett will rehearse ‘“Game- lon"—the greatest modern tragedy he has ever read—in Chicago next season. He se- lects Chicago as the place of rehearsal tor obvious reasons. ——— A Hard Hill For Democrats to Climb, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, A democratic organ declares thatthere are & great many ‘rising statesmen” in its party. They will have to rise fast if they expect to overtake Governor Hili in time to prevent his nomination for the presidency. e General Crook's Abillity, Glabe-Democrat, It is evident thut the Sioux commussion is going to succeed in its negotiations—thanks muinly to General Crook’s ability ana expe- rience in such watters; and the result will be the carly opening of a large tract of first- class land.to settlement and civilization. N Jubal Only a Reminiscence. Cineinnati. Commereial-Gazette, Why are the newspapers of the north bothering about the utterances of Rosser Jubal Earlyt They do not represent Lhe soutnerners, except such small part as ran away during the war. Rosser and Early are old, putrid reminiscences, and do not repre-~ sent auything except dead and goune ideas. When Sheridan was after thew down -the valley you could not see their coat tails for the dust they kicked up. But we deal with the young element in the south that 1s iook- ing forward, and never mind these ola fel- lows who are facing the other way. It may be observed that most of the talk we get from the south tuat annoys people loyal to the union, comes from these old men, 1t is w hopeful sign that as a rule young southerners do not talk in that straln, Let the old fellows babble. e The Nation and Its Wards, Cinelnmati Commercial-Gasette, “In its treatment of the red men, the young republic of the west has no laurels to display to the old world.,'— | Paris Letter. T'is is hardly fair in the face of the faect that one Indian tribe is the richest ‘‘nation" in the world, in proportion to numbars, and thatat the present moment the Indian chief, “Young Man Proud of His Tail.” formerly known as Charles Foster, is struggling in behalf of the United States government to buy some land from his brother Indians of the Sioux tribe for two dollars aud & half sa acre. Furthermore the “Young Republic” fur. nishes reservations and rations to ludians and free Indian sehools, to say nothing of arms and swmunition snd ‘‘tiswin,” whicg fs the Tadian pulque. Just now It is giving good food and wieeping apartments to Mr, Geronimo and several score of his active Apnche friends in the old fort at St. Augus- tine. And, by the way Mr. Geronimo bonsts that hio has killed thres hundred people of tho young ropublic, men, women and chil- dren, mostly the lntter. THE PAU By Venier Voldo, Tremulous beats of hurried hoofs like tread of maddened hail, Re-echo with the chill of doom adown the startled valo, What courier of lifo or death enchains tho air with awe, Aslike a meteor he sweeps along the Cone- maught ““For your livos to the hills!" he cried, and liko a flash he sped, To the hills " was the dread refrain of tho flerce steed's dying tread, “The hills!" what can the warning mean and what oracle of law Bids us desort our homes and hopes upon the Conemaugh? % Oh God ! upon the palsied carth what thing is stalking now, To glazo the bursting oye with whiten every brow ! The king of terrors in the dam has found some fatal flaw; An ocean with n howl of holl engulfs the Conemaugh. fear and Yot on ho flies, the rider brave, yet on tho wild-eyed steod, The lives of citias, heroes twain, hang on your flashing speed Was ever such u race before, ve it dofeat or araw, A man of steel and steed of fire with floods of Conemaugh? “For your lives, the hills, to the hills!" rang forth from dell to dell, A thread of sound as the water's roar, fast drowned the rider’s yell, For your own life now, oh hero bold, for cities of men like straw Fall and sink frow sight of carth in the tor- rent of Conemaugh. Speed ! speed! or tho race is done ! the moun- tain wave is nigh! “To the hills!” against the roar and rush, shrill rings the farewell cry, The avalanche of waters flerce enwrap him in its maw, « The clarion voice no further pleads adown the Conemaugh. Of the ten thousand burica low in the great valley’s grave, None nobler than the king of men, who died the rest to save, None worthier the victor's bays the whole brave world ne'er saw, Than the Revere who raced the tide of Cone- maugh, —— CLEVER WOMEN. Mrs. Frederica Neilson, formerly a Nor- wegian actress, is ‘“‘evangelizing” in Salt Lake City, Miss Jane Cobden, the first woman eclected a county councilor in England, is barely thirty-five years old, but her hair 1s snowy white. The expression of ner face is ro- fined and gentle, und she wears picturesque and become costumes, which complete a very attractive personality. To the queen of Italy belongs the credit of re-establishing the maunufacture of Burano lace. The industry had almost wholly died out. The queen found an old lady who knew the stitch, and had her teach a number of younger women. . The result is that Bur- ano lace again become a source of large revenue to the people of Burano. Mrs, Slocum who has just come up from Bouth America in the tiny craft built by her husband, says that while she looks back over hor adventures with pleasures, she would not like to repeat them, The boat is so small that there is scarcely any cabin, and there was o way ot heating it, no matter how cold the weather. She aund her family suffered more from want of exercise than anything else, as the boat was too small to permit of walking on deck. The voyage would bave been very lonely but that they managed to have plenty of reading matter aboard. Miss IRosa Evangeline Angel, the young Cincinnati pootess, has reccived a compli- mentary letter from Oliver Wendell Holmes, in which he says: “The great difficulty a young writer in vorse has to meet is the fact that writing in rhyme has become & common accomplishment, and verse that would have made a reputation in my young days attracts little attention in these times and brings small returns in either fame or profit.” Mrs. John A. Logan’s idea of a post-grad- uate school for young ladics is a most excel- lent one. Housekeeping is to be taught as one ot the higher accomplishments, The course of practicul instruction will include cooking and the art of entertaining and mak- ing home attractive. There are already twenty applicants for places in her school, which will be located either in New York or Chicago on her return from Europe. Muze. de Orian, a young Russian princess, died in Philadelphia last week, ana at her request her cntire wardrobe was packed in large trunks and sent to Johnstown, There were rich silk stockings, French iceled shp- pers, silk underwear, silk, satin and plush costumes, and fine women’s wear of all sorts, Mrs. O. A. Flanner of Indianapolis, has donated to Marietta (O.,) college an herba- rium of 15,000 specimens, Theso plants were gathered by her husband and herself during the last forty-five years, the collection hav- ing been made in the Ohio valley, in Mis- souri, Georgia, Michigan, and the upper Mississippi rezion, and enlarged by exchanges with botanists in all lands, e ‘Tho five-year-old daughter of Ben Miller, of Cliarles Mix county, was instantly kille recently. The hired man bLad been rolling corn with a heavy iron voller, and the child asked to rido. A suddeu jolt ‘threw her off and the roller crushed hei head in & terrible | wanuer. | A Tablespoonful ETATE AND THARITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The mayor of Hastings has ordered all gambling houses olosed. A lnrge brick block i8 to be built im= mediately on the burned district at Soward, A roligions campaign will be opened ay Shogo Island, near Milford, the latter part of this month. A rabid dog bit a number of steers belong. ing to a farmor living noar Ulysses, and sov= oral of them have died. Now that the Cyclon blown its last blast at Kenesaw, the Tribune has been res vived after a slecp of four mouths. ' John Oborlieso, president of the Oitizons bank of Dorchestor, has roturned from a five mouths' tour of Iuropo and the holy land. Tho working force of the Red Cloud Re- publican has been reorgunized, Dr. G. B. Molkerby succceding M. editor. The Geneva city council Holdr water works and were given a grand banquot board of trade. Tho grand Jury at Springviow has indictod John B. Shaw, a well-to-do miller of Keya Paha county, for incest with his sixteen- year-old daughter, The Cuming County Old Sottlers' associa~ tion has elected John D. Neligh vresident, and M. J. Hughes sccrotary. The annual reunion will oceur at West Point, August 8, Charles Moody, who located in Exotor, & foew months ago, and worked the local mer- chants for household goods on credit, has suddenly disappeared, leaving his wife and child without funds. A tramp stole nine hogs from a Milford firm and started to drive them to Crete, but ho was discovered on the road by one of the losers, who emptied the contents of a shot gun 1to the thief's logs aud then placed him under arrest The members of the Yerk city council don’t propose to get left. At their iast mooet- ing they discovered that the city funds were running low, and so they ordered warrants drawn for their own salaries six months in advance. Outsiders, as a consequenge, will have to wait for their money. A remarkablo surgical case is reported from Madison. A young man was kicked in the bead by a coit on_the 5th inst., his skuil being fractured and a large quantity of bram substance oozing out, but he has ro- mained conscious ever since, and is rapidly recovering. . A, Motzgor as inspected the the members by the loeal Towa Ttems. "Tho clergymen of Boone have organized a base ball club. Dubuque is struggling to secure the repub- lican state convention, Work has commenced on Ovtumwa’s §50,- 000 opera house. ‘The June session of the federal court bo gins at Keokui on tho 25th, Six thousand dollurs have been secured for the building of the Decorah college. Keokuk whisky resulted in the death of William Ogle, an Tilinois farmer, last woek. W. 'L’ Bristol, a_farmer living near Schal- ler, was instantly killed while blasting roek. The internal revenue collections for the Davenport district last month were $3,887,11. The mother of Chester Turney is lecturing through the state ou the incarceration of hor son. A home-made firecracker proved a costly experiment to Nichol Ballantyne, of Brook- yn, the sight of his eyes being nearly ruined. e A Des Moines hotel proprietor instructed his clerk that when the bell rang for room 70 1t meant a bottle of boer. After the parties in the room had left, a temperance lady was given the room, and when sho rang the clerk oboyed the originul_instructions and sent up a bottle of beer. She protested, but the noy insisted on leaving the beer with her. Rev. George J. Johnson, who has beon | pastor of the Buptist church’ at Burlington for the past fifty years was the other day presented with a check of sufiicient sizo to defray the expenses of a visit to points of in- terest on the other side of the ocean, & trip the minister had frequently expressed a de- sire to make. 1f Mr. Johnson obeys the ro- quest of the donor his name will never be known, as secrecy was enjoined in this re- spect, Three “blind tigers,” or holes-in-the-wall, are in successful operation at Holstein, In purchasing drmks tne visitor places hig money on the bar, mentions what he wants, and is handed what he calis for. Ho secs no oue. don’tknow whom he buys it of, and thut is all he testifies to when before the grand jury. A half car-lond of beer kees on the depot platiorm, last Saturday, indicates that prohibition does not entirely prohibit at Hol~ stein, C. L. Myers, living near West Bu rlington, left home several weeks ago in search of work, and returned home the 8th inst to tind his wife and the bired mav absent, leaving the furniture and suppliss 1n the house, the stable full of feed and wagons and several horses running ioose in the pasture, have not been heard of, and circumstances scem to confirm the suspicion that Mrs M;{fri and the hired man have eloped to- gother, Dakota. "The Hiteheock creamery is overrun with business. A new Catholic church 18 to be built ~ Lead City. The marble quarrics at Rapid City €3 being developed. A German Lutheran church has been or- eanized at Rapid City. Brule county has a population of 10,000, an increase of 9,702 since 1580, Work has been commenced on a hundreds barrel flourirg mitl at Watertown, Work has commenced on the stroct rails road botween St. Lawrence and Miller. Tne Sioux s bootblacks have formed a pool to charge 25 cents shine on the Fourth, Sitting Bull, the famous Sioux chief, s said to be 4 dying condition ut Standing Itock Agency. A Kimball man, a littic the worse for,s night's induigences, picketed himself out on the prairie the next morniug aud left Lis cow in the barn, The youngsters of Howard have a novel way of waging war on the gophors. Thoy ¢hooso sides, forming in two clubs- and kil for a prize. 'Fifteen hundred gophers were killed during one contest. A narrow gauge raiiroad company has been organized at Rapd City. A chartor hus been applied for, aud it is the intention of tho company o tap the principal cawps of the southern hills with its systom of roads. Lake Thompson, about ecightoen miles north of Howard, in Kingsbury county, iu places eight ornine feet in dopth, bas re- contly gone dry. About ten duys sz a water pout sucked up the contents of the luke and sinco then the luke bas been perfectly dry. “Pearline in a pail of water, will con- vincea womanagainst her will that it washes everything; with the rubbing it save: Viaeed best and quickest—injures nothing ; coarse or fine—just the reversc—by doing away the very thing which ruins the most clothing—especially fine things. It takes the drudg- ery out of woman's hardest work, Wash day and cleaning time are no longer “bugbears” in the homes where Pearline is used, and these homes number millions. Peddlers Beware besides are dangerous. - and some unserupulous grocers are offer- ing imitations which they ¢lair to he Pearline, or *‘the same a3 Pearline.” I1'S ¥ ALSE—thcy are not, and Masulactured soly by TAMES PYLE, N, ¥,