Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 26, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BER: MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1889, " B. ROBEWATER, Biitor. PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Patly Morning Eaition) includir g Sunday [ Yenr, . 10 he Omatin Sunday address, One Year Weekly Hee, One Year.. . OFFICES, Omaha Office, Bee Bullding, N. W. Beventeenthand Farnam Streets. Chicago Office, 587 Hookery Building, New York Office, Rooms 14 and Tribune ling, ‘Washington OMce, No. 513 Fourteenth Street. Council Biufis Ofice, No. 12 Pear] Stroet. Lancoln Office, 1020 P Street, CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and edl. torial matter should be addressed to the Editor of the live. BUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and remittances should Do addressed to i he oo Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafts, checks and postoflice oraers to be made payablo t the order of the company, The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors, #3xx Hullding Farnam and Seventeenth Streets, Corner THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, 1ad County of Douglas, George B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Beo Publishing Company, does solomnly swe e DALY B , 1850, Was 08 fo1 enr thit the actual circulation o for the week ending August August 18 Monday, August. 19 luesdny, August ). vednesday, August 2 Thursday, Angust 22 Friday, August 3. Baturday, August 2. 18,001 GEORC B. TZSCH K. Bworn to befors mo and subscribed o in my presence this 24tn dny of August, A. D 1850, (Henl.) N. 1. FEIL, Notaty Publix. Etate of Nebraska, | County of Douglas. { 5% George 1. Taschuck, heing duly sworn, de- Jokes aid sayn that e n tecrotary of ‘The lies bubiishing company. that the actual ayerage daily circnlation of ‘Tux DAILY BER for th month of August, 1883, 15,15 coples: for Sep- tember, 185, 1K151 copies: for October 1885 IRON copiest for Novembr, 1465, 18,08 copio: s, 18, Average for Decembe for Janua 8,574, coples 1580, or March, {8 I8, 18,55 coples for June, 15 18,538 copies. Eworn to before me an Presence this id day of August, 180, (8rAL] N.P. Frir, Notary Public THe cheapness of brick should en- courage the erection of more brick dwellings in the suburban districts of the city. Omaha has too many wooden buildings. IowA may well pluck the feather out of Kentucky’s cap as the blue grass state. judging from the interest mani- fested in the Blue Grass palace at Cres- ton. COMPLAINT is made that grading con- tractors for public works are victimiz- ing their laborers. This is an abuse which the proper authorities should look into and remedy. T'00 close an attendance upon the re- cent meetings of the council has had a Dbad effect upon the board of public works. I8 last session was soured, flavored with red pepper and sauced with vinegar. Now that some of our new ships of war have demonstrated their sea worth- iness, would it not ba well to send them out to cruise or into the dry dockin or- der to keep them out of harm’s way in American harbors? PLAIN John Miller was nominated for governor of North Dakota by acclama~ tion in the republican convention of the new state. It is eminently proper that a great wheat growing state should have a Miller for its first governor. — IF, INSTEAD of thankfully receiving Buch small crumbs of concession as the railroads see fit from time to time to dole out to them, Omaha business men would demand their just rights, they would be more likely to get what they want. ——— TuE schooner Sapphire has arrived +at Victorin, British Columbia, with two thousand, five hundred seal skins on board. Thus do the saucy Canadians not only poach upon America’s sealing grounds, but have the audacity to laugh in her face when they escape with their booty. — THE mayor of Chicago has asked the governor of Illinois to call a special ses- sion of the legislature 1n order to aid the city 1n securing the world’s fair. Considering Chicago's big talk about its ability to take eutire charge of tho fair without any outside assistance, this seems to be considerable of a let down. — THE selection of Charles A. Dana, the distinguished editor of the New York Sun, as president of the world’s fair commrtiee of th .. city, is a compliment to that gentleman as well as to the pro fession he 80 ably represents. The ed- itor isbecoming a greater factor in the world’s affairs as the enlightenment of the people progresses. ——— GREAT BRITAIN still leads the world as the groeativon and stecel producing ecountry, although the United States is a close second in the race for su- premacy. For the year 1888 England produced seven million, nine hundred thousand tons of pig iron, while the production of this corintry amounted to 8ix million, five hundred thousand tons. The prospects are favorable to the iime when the United States will equal the output of Great Britain, especially since the cheapness by which steel can bo produced by modern methods in America bas in turn stimulated the production of steel-muking pig iron. —e MEX1C0 has her trust problem to cou- front owing to the formation of syndi- cates coutrolling some of the leading commercial interests of that republic. Combines have been effected to cor ner allthe sugar producea by native planta- tions. Agreements likewise have been entered into by the cloth and cotton maoufacturers to cut down the produc- tion of their mills ana to work off their stocks on hand without a reduction of price such as would follow were the sup- ply not restricted, The Mexicans are Jooking with suspicion against the intro- duction of what is called @ pernicious American and European system, It re- wains to be seen in what munner Mexico will meet the trustevil, It is not too much to expect that the republic will act summarily and solve by a practicul demounstration the most important cow- mercial problem of the present. WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST BE? The four new states, which will soon have completed the work necessary to their admission into the union, will ex- eort an important influence upon na- tional policy and legislation. They will send to congress eight senators and five representatives, and as parties now stand in the two branches of that body the new state representatives could, by combination in either house, hold the balance of power. At least six of the eenators and four of the representatives will be republicans, with a strong probability that all of them will be. Such as are can be de- pended upon to consistently support all meusures that reflect the will and de- clared policy of the party in power, for the republicanism of the new states is straight and sincere. But there are questions affecting the future welfare of these new commonwealths which have no proper relation to party polities, and it i§ important that the people in selecting those who will represent them in con- gress, shall know that they are sound upon these questions. It is the misfortune of tho west that it is largely represented in con- gress, and especially in the senate, by men who are conspicuously the instruments of the corporations, owing their political elevation to the corrupt methods and influence of the railroads whose servants they have been, and in most cases are still. With very few exceptions every present mem- ber of the United States senate from the west has been at some time, if he is notmow, in the service and pay of some railroad which exists by the generous favor of the government, It was asthe paid attorneys of the corporations that most of these senators commended them- selves for political preferment to their employers, and were enabled to obtain the position which they might never otherwise have secured. Who repre- sentsthebetter halfof thiscontinent that lies west of the Missouri in the United States senate? Oregon’s senior senator, Mitchell, is an out-and-out railroader. As member of the committee on Pacific railroads, of which he was made chai man during the last half of his first term, he was as active in the in- terest of the Pacific roads as his colleague, Dolph, formerly the at- torney of the Northern Pacific, has been since bis advent in the senate. California is merely a preserve for the Central Pacific oligarchy. Leland Stanford, the head of the Central Pa- cific railroad and chief of the Southern Pacific construction ring, fills one cushioned seat in the senute and M. Hearst, a ten millionaire, another seat. Nevada has been practi- cally a pocket bangle for the California bonanza Kkingm ‘While Stewart and Jones are par excellence representatives of the silver mining in- dustry, they are bandicapped when- ever any issue affecting the Pacific railronds comes before the senate. Henry M. Teller,” the senior senator from Colorado, was a Union Pacific at- torney before he entered the senate, and is the creature, politicaily, of that road. Senator Wolcott is notoriously a railroad lawyer, who had a walkaway over all competitors, owing to the octive support of the rail- road managers. The senators from Kansas and Nebraska have no disposi- tion to antagonize the Pacific railroads, or, for that matter, any other railroads. Senator Ingalls is one of the most brilliant men in congress, but he never would have been in the senate without the active aid of Jay Gould’s cohorts. Senator Plumb claims to be his own man, but the railroads have always had a string to him when it came to a vital question. Sedators Maunderson and Paddock are manacled by political railroad ties which they dare not attempt to sever. The question now is, is the railroad contingent to be reinforced by the eight new senators who will repre- sent the two Dakotas, Montana and Washington? It is a matter of the most vital importance that the corporate power, now so strongly entrenched in the senate of the United States, shall be checked and curbed, The senators to be chosen by the new states should be men who have no taint of corpora- tion service upon their records, and whose known sympathies are with the people. The popular sentiment ‘mani- fested in a majority of these states is decidedly anti-monopoly. But there is the ever-present danger, to be averted only by the utmost vigil- ance and care, that the insidious and corrupt use of corporate influence will thwart the populur will, Thisinfluence is unmistakably at work in Washington and Montana, and in both it has been effective, though perhaps less so in the former than in the latter, The power to be exerted by the new states in na- tional affairs will be greatly enhanced in value if they shall be represented in congress by men who are free from any allegiance to the corporations, and who, while disposed to give them all that is just, can be depended upon 1o give first and paramount consideration to the in- terests of the people. —— THE NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT., The encampment of the Grand Army ot the Republic at Milwaukee this week will be a groat success notwithstanding the difficulties which a short time ago threatened to render it a failure. The action of the railroads which reduced the fare to one cent had an encouraging effect upon the veterans to which these lines are accessible, and the movement of these on Milwaukee naturally stimu- lated others eolsewhere. The result is that for several days the old soldiers have been gathering for the encampment in large numbers, so that the outlook is for a large representation at the en- campment, though the number in at- tendance will hardly be more than one- third the attendunce at the encampment of last year,” Under the circumstances the assured success of the Milwaukee encampment is & very great compliment to the devo- tion of the veterans to their organiza- tion, while it attests, also, the strength of the spivic of comradesuip that exists among them. The world bhas never before known a militacy order bound together by closer ties than cement the Grand Army ol the Republic, and s an ex- ample of the power of army service to create permanent friendships which grow in force and fervor from year to year, as well as for its patriotic influ- once, this order is worthy of the heartiest admiration and respect. The Grand Army has been steadily growing sinze its organization, the membership having reached last year over three hundred and sixty thousand, or about one-third of all the survivors of the union armies. The figures of this year will probably show a considerable increase, but growth can not go on much longer, and in a few years the statistics of mem- bership must begin to diminish from year to year as death thins out the ranks of the veterans. The preparations for the entertain- ment of the old soldiers and their friends at Milwaukee ure on an elabor- ato scale, embracing several unusually intercsting features. The business to bo transacted by the convention of dele- gates from the various posts will be of very great importance to the order. Besides the election of a commander-in-chief, for which there is promised a spirited contest, several questions of more than ordinary inter- est to the old soldiers will be consid- ored. Among these the recent decision of the assistant secretary of the inte- rior, that a dishororable discharge does not exclude a soldier from receiving a pension for disability . resulting from service, will doubtless reccive atten- tion. The union veterans everywhere will be deeply interested in all that oc- curs at Milwaukee this week, and it is to be hoped there will be nothing to in- terfere with the fullest enjoyment of those who participate in the encamp- ment. THE SEAL CONTROVERSY. There was a report from Ottawa a few days ago that the Rritish government had refused to send war vessels to pro- tect Canadian seal fishers in Behring sea. While not confirmed, it is very probable that there was a foundation for this report, there being no question that the Canadian authorities had asked for such protection. It iseasy to under- stand that the British government would see, although the government of Canada might not, that the depreda- tions of the seal fishers in Alaskan wa- ters, after the plain warning given in the proclamation of the president that such depredations would be punished by this goverament, 1s an offense which no gov- ernment having a regard for interna- tional amity could sustain, and if, under the circumstances, the British govern- meut were to send war vessels into Behring sea, such action might fairly be interpreted by the government of the United States as a hostile proceed- ing implying a disposition to terminate the friendly relations between the governments. However welcome such a course might be to the tory authorities of the Do- minion, the imperial government is un- doubredly not disposed to take it. There is a profound secrecy obseryed at Washington regarding this Behring sea matter, but there is reason to be- lieve that negotintions are in prospect. It is intimated that our government, without necessarily abandoning the claimof jurisdiction over Behring sea, will propose to the British government a joint agreement for the protection of the seal fisheries. It is said that this is favored by both the presi- dent and the secretary of state, and it is doubtless the most simple and direct way of disposing of the matter. Eng- land is only less concerned than this country in preventing an extermina- tion of the seal, and it ought not to be difficult to effect an agreement that would be mutually satisfactory and ad- vantageous, and swould terminato, for at least a considerable time, a contro- versy which if continued may become irritating and troublesome. Mean- while, at the pleasure of the two gov- ernments, the question of jurisdiction over Behring sea could be deliberately and qifietly settled. GOVERNOR WATERMAN, of Cal- ifornia, has probably listened to better counsel and has ordered the attorney general todismiss the unwareanted pro- coedings begun against Justice Fiold. The arrest of this United States judge and the indignities heaped upon him since the unfortunate killing of David vy are & reflection upon the fair name of Californin. Whatever charges of a serious nature the state may have against Deputy. Nagle, tho slayer of Terry, itis patent to atd fair minded men that Justice Field had no hand in the sensational ogcurrence. The at- tempt to make him out to be an acces- sory to the killing is nothing more nor less than persecution on the part of the district attoreey of San Joaquin county. . THE miners of northern Illinois are placed in & peculiar and unsatisfactory condition if the report of the committee appointed by Governor Fifer to investi- gate the mining troubles of that region can be relied upon. The committée re- ports that it is impossible for the miners to subsist upon the wages offered them by the operators, and on the other hand that the operators cannot meet the com- petition of the coal miners of southern Illinois either in the output of coal or in.wages. Such being the case it is dificuls to see how there can bo any other alternative but to shut down coal mining in northern Illinois until the market for coal and the conditions of mining will have improved. OMAHA was represented at the Blue Grass palace at Creston, Iowa. The compliment should be reciprocated Merchants’ Week. The Elixir Wants Reviving. Chicago Tribune, ‘The Brown-Sequard elixir appears o need ® dose of iwelf. Dakota is Coming On. Detroit Free Press, Dakota begius early. It isn't really a state yet—or two states—but it has a full fledged defaulter allee samee old states. e — A New York Trait, Philadelphia Times, The New York willionaires cheered Editor Dana's $10,000 check for the exhibition. A New Yorker is always cheerful when some- body eise puts up. e R What to Do With Joho L. New York Tribune, The way for Governor Lowry 0 vindicate the good nae 4f the state and his own dig- nity as an offiok witl be to let Sullivan sorve out. his torm. A pardon would turn the whole pursiTt 4d prosecution of these men into a farce,nd cover the governor and his state with rigigale. i iiipicissacs The Soap Man Draws the Line. (New York Journal, Mrs. Leslié Carter's picture recently ap- peared with that of Modjeska in an article in a New York,ngwspaper on ‘‘The Queen of the Stage.” | Mme. Modjeska has not yetsued for libel, though the vrovocation is great. We observe With satisfaction, however, that no soap manttatturer has as yet disfigured his chaste advertisomonts with a recommen- dation from Mrs. Carter. lbtes - How to Vitalize. Cinoinnati _Commerclal-Gazette, 1f Mr. Cleveland desires to vitalize himself as a presidential candidate he must come to Ohio ana partake of the fluid extract of the wool question. It is different from the Brown-Sequard elixir, but it might have the desired eftect. If he is going to be & great man any more, he must go close to the people. il GREAT MEN. Brown-Sequard has become a more inter- esting personage to visitors in Paris than Pasteur, The bronze monument of Robort E. Leo at Richmond, Va., will be unveiled in Novem- ber next, The pedestal is being built of New England granite. Tho Prince of Wales wears a sash with his summer costume. ‘AL” Daggett, the polychromatic politician, who has obtained the government postal card contract, now claims thit he will make $100,000 a year for the next eight years. Postmaster General Wanamaker was not ploased with Saratoga He did not like its stamp of worldliness. The oldest wheelman in America is John W. Arnold, of Providence, R. I He is sev- enty-eight. It is rumored that Levi P. Morton re- contly staked a small sum on a Saratoga horse race. Ward McAllister, the revered) leader of the Four Hundred, has been taking life quietly at Newport, this summer. William L. Scott, although he owns one of the finest stock farms of blooded horses in the country, will never ride bohind a spirited horse. Molville B. Stone, the retired Chicago Journalist, was at Trondbjom, Norway, on the 23d of July returning from a search for the midnight sun at North Cape. Edward Bellamy, author of “Looking Backward,” is a native resident of Chicopes Falls, a quiet village near Springfield, Mass. Hoe is thirty-nine, is married and has two children. Mr, Stone, the editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, lives on Franklin avenue, where he has mearly an acre of ground planted in roses. Mr. Stono had 2,700 roses cut from his garden one day and they were not missed, fully as many being lett behind. ' Justice Field is a small-sized man, much 10 the surprise of people who have oniy seen him sitting behind the dosk of the supreme court, robed in 1iis voluminous judicial gown of black silk, for his head and his body are unusually large. A volume of the poems of Frederic Tenny- son, eldest brother of the poet laureate, is among the reprints in contemplation in Lon- don. They have becomo difficult to procure. M. Solabel, a'Freich architect who has been employed of ' late in the palace of the king of Corea, was recently stoned by the servants of the palacs and had to flee for his ife. The feoling in Corea against the French is intense. Dr. Charles Theodore, duke of Bavaria, the philanthropic physician, recently celebrated at Tegersee, in Bavaria, his removal of the thousandth cataract from the eyes of his poor patients. Itwas made the occasion of & great ovation, The venerable General Francis E. Spin- ner, ex-treasurer of the United States, issaid to be hopelessly ill at his home in Pablo Beach, Fla., 80 that his deash is likely to oc- cur within a fow weeks. The trouble is a cancer on his face, caused by weariug an ill- fitting pair of eye wlasses, General Spinner is neurly eighty-eight years old, naving been born at Herkiwmer, N. Y. on January 21, 1802, Secretary Rusk does not scem to mind hot weather. He has.spenta great deal of his time in Washington this summer, and has done a large amount of work, but he 1s as chipper as a bird, and his laugh is as hearty as though the atmosphere was dry and cool. He says the secret of all this lies 1n the fact that he has always taken good care of himself and has been very abstemious in the use of alcobiol and tobacco, - STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. York now has a fire bell which cost $133. Schuyler has voted $20,000 bonas to builda high school building. Work is 1o be commenced at once on a new Methodist church at Liberty, Tho Nemaha county republican conven- tion will be held at Auburn September 28, The Keya Paha county republican conven- tion will be held at Springview, Septem- ber 14. 3 ‘The Northwestern road is putting in addi- tional swith tracks and a turn-table at Ge- neva. ‘The old settlers reunion at Fairmont last week was altended by over five hundred peopie. A three-story court houso is being erected at Harrisburg, the county seat of Banner county. A four-year-old Syracuse cnild was bitten by arattlesnake last week and three days later it died. A lodge of Knights of Pythias was inst1- tuted at Platte Center last week with thirty- five members. A Booue connty farmer has allowed him- self to be victimized by the old lightning rod racket to the extent of $100, Boone county,bonsts that it has more school teachers than, any of its older and more densely populated neighbors. Six thousund people attended the reunion of old seitlers of Butier, Polk, Seward and York counties neur Gresham and had a de- Lightful time, ‘Twenty-six bottles of beer in the posses- sion of John Blck, at York, were confiscated and Bick was sent to jail for selling liquor without a licens Membrino Bddy, the trotting stallion kept by A, J. Thowpson, of Red Cloud, was shot on account of having glanders, The horse was valued ot $3,500. Two young boys named Nelson and Weise, sons of farmers’living noar Coleridge, nave disappeared from itheir homes and no trace of them can be'found. J. W. Hyatt has retired from the business management of the Fremont Flail and has been succeeded by R.D. Kelley, a well- known newspaper man. Only one-fourth of the land of Blaine, Thomas and southwest Brown counties is yet occupied, the rest of the land stiil being held by the governmeat and being open for pre- emption, homestead and tree claim eutry. ‘The repubilicans of Furnas county bLave nowivated the followlng ticke! . C, Lew- is, judge; Jobn Ormstead, clerk; A. J. Mc- Puak, treasurer; Churles McComb, sherift; N. Fodrea, county superintendeut; Dr. Gunu, coroner, ‘Tne annual conference of the Christian Endeavor societies of the state will be held at Fremont commencing September 4 snd continuing three days. One hundred and forty organized districts are expected to be represented. The seventeenth anuual convention of the Evaugelical Luthern synod of Nebraska will be bheld in St. Mark's church at Graod Tsland, beginning September 8 and oclosing on the Oth. Addroessos will be maae both in German and English, Judge Chapman has granted an injunction against tho _village board of Syracuse from arresting G. W. Biser on certain charges. He has been twice arrested and fined for not moving a building which extends out over the line of tho stroet. Julius Schroeder, a saloon keeper of Beemer, is in hard lock, His saloon has been twico broken into and goods carried away, he was victimized to the tune of 850 by « confederate bill, and some months ago & check was forged on him for $105. He b finally concluded that the world is growing more wicked each da) A forzetful Schuyler undertaker causod £ bad hitch in a funeral there the other day. When the procession arrived at the cometery it was found that no grave had been dug, and the final ceremonies were gone through while the coffin was on top of the wround. Afterward the grave was dug and the body 1aid in its last resting place, lowa Items. There is talk of sinking an artesian wellat Marengo. Six thousand poople colebrated old settlors' day in Henry county. It is reported that the honey crop of the state is larger than ever. The upper Town university expects a larger attendance this fall than ever. The fourth reunfon of the Second Iowa cavalry will be held at Maguoketa October 9 and 10, Oskaloosa ships ¥4,000 dozen eggs & week. There is said to be over $30.000 tied up in old stockings aud buried at West Liberty, which the owners are afraid either to bank or invest. Miss Zoe L. Fisher, aged eighteen, and Jawes Lane, aged twenty-one, came to Ham- burg and were married in haste, after which Lane hired a fast livery team and drove out of town ona gallop. ~Half an hour later Miss Fisher’s father arrived on horseback in search of the runaway couple. He de- clared his daughter wasonly seventeen years old, and threatened to shoot tho groom on sight. It is reported that a Des Moines physician introduced some of the elixir of life under the scalp of & bald headed man over sixty years of age. Jn three days a thick sod of Hoe curling brown hair had sprung up over thatdesert waste. As the fringe of old hair around the back of his head is as white as snow and straight as Mile End thread, it gives him rather an odd appearance, but it proves the power of the elixir. The fifth biennial reunion of the ‘‘Crock- er’s lowa Brigade” association, Major-Gen- eral Belknap, president, will be held at Council Bluffs, September 18 and 19. The attendance of every member of the brigade is urged as a matter of both duty and pleas- ure. To secure as large an attendance, and at as small an expense o veterans and their families as possible, the transportation com- mittee has effected an arrangement with the railroads for one ana one-third rate, or for full fare going to the reunion and returning at one-third fare, on showing a certificate of the secretary of the transportation commit- tee that party was in actual attendance. Re- duced rates at the hotels have also been se- cured. A young Muscatine man was quietly row- ing a skiff ucross the river the other day, when without the least warning a monster hurled himself from the depths and lauded in front of the boat behind the affrighted oars- man. To'say that he was astonished would be putting it very mild; still he managed to keep the wriggling creaturs in the boat with one oar whilst standing up and paddling ashore. Several persons witnessed the fish jump in, and more yet viewed it when landed. 1t was a blue sturgeon, measuring five feet from tip to tip, and weighed forty pounds. The Two Dakotas. The Pierre Signal will soon appear as & daily. The Sioux Falls deat mute school reopens Seprember 11. Several miles of sidewalk have been laid at DeSmet this season. Aberdeen wauts the state fair located per- manently in that city. The new Pierre national bank will open for business September 1. A school house near Blunt was almost en- tirely demolished by lightning last weok. A special election is to be held at Aten August 81 to vote £5,000 in bouds to aid the Yankton & Norfoll roaa. Black bears have been so audacious as to invade the principal streot of Hamilton, and one of them was killed last week. About four hundred additional patents have been issued to_sottlers in the Huron 1and district and will be roady for delivery in about two weeks. he young ludios of Pierre are orgunizing abrass band. They expect in_about three wooks to put on the boards “A Farmers Iron Will,” a molodrama in five acts. From the proceeds of the play they will provide themselves with band instruments. “There 18 no dude_about James L. Dayis of Beadle county, tho newly recommended candidate for & West Point cadetship. When his examination at Redfleld was concluded all tho trains had gone, and he must stay where hewas fora day or walk eighteen miles home. He walked. John Smith, liviog & few miles west of Yaukton, recéntly lost four head of cattle by the preyailing opidemic, Saturday he took off the hides of the dead animals, and in doing this iunoculated himself through a cut on one hand with the virus in the carcass, and a bud case of blood boisong ensuod, his arm swelling to several times its natural size. Mr. Smiti's son, & young boy, Who as- sisted in skiuning the catile, is also showing symptoms of blood poisoning. e NORTH PLATTE'S FUTURE. Business Men Have Confldence in It and Show Their Faith, Nowrrn Pratre, Neb., August 25.—To the Editor of Tre BE| That some of our busi- ness men believe in a future for North Platte is evidenced by the building and improve- ments gomg on. Several fine brick stores have been built within the last yeur, two having been comploted and occupied within the last few weeks, Within the last month ground has been broken for the building of what will be the two finest structures in North Platte, the First National and the North Platte National banks, both of which will be completed and ready for occupancy be fore snow flies. William Neville has aiso begun building 8 brick block on Sixth street, which will be completed before the 1st of December. In course of erection, also, are the dwellings of Dr, Hiogston, just about completed, and T, Patterson, two of the finest in the city. In fact, all the carpenters, stonemusons and bricklayers in town have been engaged since early in the spring in the erection of business houses and dwellings, and with them two Omaha firms are now building the brick blocks above mentioned. ‘The every-day appearance of things in and around the Union Pacificshops now is simply a semblance of the Sunday of the pas Whether this state of things will continue @ mere matter for speculation. Frowm ail that appears on the surface it is & question if we will soon, if ever again, see the busy throngs at the benches and in the pits as of yore, It is 1dle, perhaps, to spaculate on the causes that have led up Lo the present state of things, whether of omission or commission, whether the blame lies at the door of the company or the employ yet, if properly put before the readers of Bee, which is known to be the real friend of the laboring man, it might serve a purpose. It is well known that for years the employes in the shops here have ressted a reduction of wages. ‘There was at least one striko and the company was forced to *‘come to terms,” that is, to yield the point, which was a con- templated reduction in wages; result, finally, a reduction of more than half in force and short hours for those retained; result ain, hardship to the families of those thrown out of employment. Of oue thing I am assured, in the light of past events, with the experience of the last fow months the ewployes of the shops here, not only such as have lost their jobs, but those who yet retain them, most of them, at Jeast, wouid in u similar case welcome & re- duction in wages. X Y. % Sharks Pass Through the Oanal. Before the Isthmus of Suez was pierced by the canal there were almost no sharks in the Mediterranean, the pass- age through the Straits of Gibraltar not being to their liking. Now, how- ever, they come in by way of the canal, and in such numbers that in more than one watering place, and especially on the Adriatic, the sign has gone up **Beware of Sharks.” HE WASSAVED BY A DEAD MAN A First Mate's Awful Experience in the North Pacifio. MUTINEERS AND MAN-EATERS. Seamen Kill Their Captain and Throw Him Overboard Just in Time to Save the Mate's Life. There passed through this ety to-day a man whose torrible experiencesin the North Pacific ocean aqual those of the famous Robinson Crusoe, whose adven- tures have been the astonishment of American youngsters for sevoral dec- ades, says & Denver special to tho Pitts- burg Dispatch. This gentleman was N. C, Marks, a sea captain, en route from Portland, Oro., to the Atlantic coast, and the story, as heard from his own lips, is as follows: “'I was wrecked on the coast of Brit- ish Columbia during the terrible gale which recently swept from one end to the other of the Pacific const, and am now on my way to report to the owners of the ship and cargo. She was a whuler, named the Blanche Bucking- ham, and hailed from the Pelican inlet on the coast of Maine. We sailed from port nearly three years ago with acrew of elevon, besides the captain and two mates. I was the first mate. The cap- tain was on old whaler, named Captain Leroy Autrey, and he has heen the friend of my lifetime. He and my father had first shipped together, and this friendship had never been broken. “After striking the whaling grounds we had excellent luck, and were stow- iuguw:\{ considerable oil. Everything on board was peaceable, with the ex- ception of two men who had hard feol- ings for the captain, and conauctad themselves in such a manner as to cause them to be thrown into irons upon two oceasions. Upon the last occasion they scemed to have repented and promised better behavior,and every one supposed all trouble had been amicably settled. MUTINY AND MURDER. Some months ago we were off the coast of British Columbia, some 600 miles from land, and one day when I was out with nine of the crew, I noticed a signal being worked from the main- staff rigging. It was evidently one of distress, and I at once hastened toward the ship. It wasa little after midday, for the captain and the second mate had remdined on board with the two men I have spoken of and the cook. As we nueared the ship the man in the rigging proved to be the second mate, who who warned us not to come along side, and said the two men had killed the captain, and that he had only saved his own life by springing into the rigging armed with a harpoon, which prevented the murderers from following him, The cook was threatened, but begged for his life, and had been secured in the cabin. My first thought was to board the ship, but the mate told me the men were crouched on deck, armed with so I withdrew. ing until after dark, I rowed to within a short distance of the ship, and, removing all my clothing, I armed my- self with n meat knife, slipped into the water and struck out for the ship, and what happened to me in the next few minutes womld fill the pages of a life- time. ““All the firearms on the ship wore locked in a strong, iron-bound box, the only key of which Lhad in_my posses- sion. 1 intended swimming to her, climb upon the rudder, secure the pis- tols and either capture or kill the mur- derers. “I had succeeded 1n swimming about one hundred ards from the yawls, when 1y heart was almost paralyzed with hor- ror as I became aware of the presence of a shark. I could hear him rushing toward me, its dorsal fin cleaving the water like a streak. The horror of a terrible death crept ovar me and in an instant I seemed to live an age of sus- pense. Quickly drawing my knife, and as [ felt the swell on the water which preceded the mouster, [ gathered my- self for a desperate attempt to dive, which was successfully done, and the huge form shot over me like a flash far out into the depth beyond. The ship was only a few yards distant and I real- ized it was a fight for life. I was des- perately wedged between two foes, which I knew to be equally dangerous. SAVED BY A CORPSE. “If T cried to the mutinous seamen abourd they might refuse me assistance, and if not, would perhaps save me only to be butchered. To escape the sharic was next to an impossibility which [ recognized as I heard the bafiled mon- ster making the water boil as he turned to renew the attack, 1 realized that it would be but an instant before the ““man-eater would be upon me aguin, and 1 fairly threw my body out of the water in making such _streneous efforts to gain the ship’s rudder. I could again hear thaft chilling sound like the cold cutting of a knise through the water. I felt the swell or the monster behind me, and every fiber in wy body was strug- gling to escape. My breath was sus- ended and my eyes seemed springing rom their socket trying to measure the distance to the place of safety. I turned to meet it with the knife which I car- ried in my teeth, when a heavy body shot over iuto the sea, and I was nearly drawn into the vortex. “I heard the steel-like jaws of the monster close upon and erush the un- known object as 1 grasped the rudder, and, almost senseless, yielded to relaxa: tion. I don’t know how long I remain there, and never an infant, pillowed against his mother’s bosom, rested more swoetly than I It was a moment of eace with all the world, and my entire being seemed going out in & prayer of thanksgiving for my miraculous escane. “Hearing the sound of voices above me, I recognized the speakers as being the two seamen. ‘The old brute will never put us in irons againg I heard one of them say, and I knew that the murdered captain had saved my life; that they bad thrown his bodyin the jaws of the hungry shark, and that the riend of my life-time, while cold in death, had been my savior. A FIGHT FOR LIFE. “Aroused to action, I climbed up the rudder-post and finally reached the opening, through which I crept into the pantry. 1 crept into the apartment where the ordnance chest was kept, though the room was inky dark. I found it, and, had opened the lid, when I heard menat the door. 1 sprang to fasten it, but it was 0o late, and one of then entered with a lantern in his hand. He uttered & curse of surprise as he recognized me, and in the same instant I kicked the lantern from his hand, und we were iu total darkness. Quickly drawing my kuife, I plunged it into his body, and with a dying yell he sank to the floor, 80 deeply was the kuoite thrust into his body that the hao- dle was drawn from my grasp as the dead mutineer dropped. The other man was carrving an ax with which te chop open the arms chest, and as his comrade went down he struck at me, the keen edge crushing into my side. Mad with pain, T elinched with him, and with both my hands caught him by his long, full beard. With the mad- ness of amaniac I pressed him to the floor, with the determination of crush- ing him to death. He wasa smaller man than I; but, crazed with pain and growing weak from loss of blood, I made one determined offort—I doubled him up, and, bending my entire force upon him, I heard the cracking of joints, a groan, a gurgle and a yiolding of the musclos, A dizziness camo over mo and I swooned. ‘‘When I revived, it was still dark, and in a wenkened condition I erawled upon the deck, T tried to draw myself upon the gunwale to signal my crew to come, but I could not get above the deck, I thought of the mate in the rig- i tried “to get him to como did not recognize my voice, and thought it a trick of the two seamen to decoy him to the deck, and made no reply o my ealls, After some time spent in this manver I again swooned. Nothing mg was known to me until two s afte d, when 1 came to consciousness, surrounded by a portion of my erew. Diybreak appoared soon ufter I swooned, and the mate in the rigging rocognized me lying on the deck und notified my crow, who were waiting a fow vards away. They came on board and found the corpses “of tho dead seamen, one with a knife piercing his hoart and the other with his neck broken, *Soon after rognining consciousness wo put for the land, and on the way en- countered a gale which drove usashore. We all escaped with our lives, but the vessol was dashed to pisces by the waves. I cannot. begin to tell you what we passed through for two v tramp- ing along the road toward civilizatio n. But here [ am safe, though considera- bly the worse for wear, but still thank- ful that all our lives were preserved.” - ORATORY AS A FINE ART. An Eminent Englishman Charges Its Decay to Oheap Literature, In antiquity the training of an orator w as e rate an affair as the teaining of a racehorse with us, v Morell McKenzie in the Con- tempocary Review. Not only the voice, but the whole man, physical, intellec- tual and moral, was carefully prepared, with conscientious minuteness of detail; for the groat business of 1ife, the mak- ing of speeches. Lo this system of edu- cation the development of the voice naturally held a large place, and the phonascus, or voice dritler, was an in- dispensable accessory, notonly of every school of oratory, but of many formed orators. Of the methods of the pho- nascus we know little, but we find hints in some of the cias writers that, like certain of his professional brethren i he was not disin- ruify his office. Seneca, in one of his letters, warns his friends against living, voeally speaking. in sub- jection to his phonascus, and implies that he might as well keep another ar- tist to superintend his walking. Inour own day the phonascus still survives in ublic ‘life, though perhaps more as a uxury than an acknowledged necessity. celebrated novelist, dramatic author and orator, who passed over to the t majority many years ago, used al s to put himself under the guidance Lvoeal mentor before delivering a spech. Ivery tone, every pose and every gosture was carefully prepared and ‘industriously practiced under the direction of Mr. Frederick Weobster, brother of the celebrated comedisn, Benjamin Webster. That the elaborate training of the ancients was eminently successful is shown by the powers of endurance which it is clear they must have possessed. They habitually spoke for five or six hours, and even longer, and, in order toappreciate their staying power, it must be remembered that they spoke in the open air, amid all the tumult of the forum, which was capable of holding 80,000 people, and with an amount and vigor of action of which the gesticulations of an TItalian preacher are but a pale reflex. Long- windedness was at one time cultivated as a fine art by Roman orators. These prototypes of our modern obstruc- tionists were aptly termed mora- tores, or delayers, because they post- poned s faras poesible the passing of the sentence. The abuse finally reached such a height that a law had to be pnssed limiting the length of pleadings in public cases tothe running out of one clepsydra. It is 1mpossible to say ex- actly” what period of time this was equivalent to, as the water-clocks of the Romaus were of different sizes, and the rapidity of flow must have varied under different circumstances; from twenty minutes to half an hour may, however, be taken as roughly representing tha average length of a speech under tha sirict system of “*closure.”’ If the Romans carried the culture of the spehking voice to a pedantic ex- treme, we, on the other hand, undoubt- edly neglect it too much. It is not that we speik less, but that we have less ap- preciation than the ancients had of ora- tory as a flne art, and we are therefore more tolerant of mumbling utterance and slovenly delivery. Many an inar- ticulate spenker who in these days hums and haws through an hour or twa of dreary platitudes would have been Hootaa down in yesminutes by a Greek or Roman audience. The comparative decay of orators in modern times is due to the effusion of cheap litera- ture; the function of the pub- lic speaker has been to a gront extont made obsolete by the daily newspapers. Information and argu- ments on political matters, which had formerly to be supplied by word of mouth from the rostrums, are now served up, spiced to each reader’s taste, by innumerable ‘“able editors.” Bug though tho necessity for what T call profassional orators 1o longer exists, a Iarge part of the business of the stute in a free country must still be ca on or controlled by talk, and the living voice must always have a power of stir- ring and swaying popular senti- ment—the collective feeling of large masses of men, which i something more thun the sum of the individual feelings—far beyond th reach of the pen. John Bright's ex- quisite purity of style would huve made him a most effective writer, but would his great speeches, if cut up into leads ing articles, have stirred the national heart as did his burning words, thrown red-hot among a living muss of enthu- siastic hearers? On the whole I think we use the voice in public even more than the ancients, and there is, theres fore, all the more reason for its bcln( properly trained. Good speaking 18 nowadays important, not only from " the artistic, but from the business point of view; and, even for “'practical men,” it cannot be a waste of time to acquire so valuable a faculty, - R A Congo Warrior's Outfit. A Congo warrior’s outfit which has just been received by the Smithsonian Institute at Washington from Lieuten- ant Taunt, United States commercial agent in the Congo state, consists of & bamboo shield six feet long and one wide, a spear four feet long,u knife that looks like & pruning kunife and a bow with bamboo strings and two iron-tipped BIOWS.