Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 22, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1880-SIXTEE THE _DAILY BEE. 8. ROSEWATER, B iitor PUBLISHED RVERY MORNING. aa ity " TERMS OF EULS( RTPTION. Dally (Morning Bdition) incluaing sunday Ree, One Yenr. v 1 or &lx_Months ety Three Mont je Omsha Bunday 1 addriss, One Year ... Weekly lice, Ono Year . OFFICESR, Omann Ofies, Beo Bullding. N, W, Corner Beventecnth and Farnam Streets, Chicago Offies, 507 Rookery Hutlding, ol York Oifis, Rooms 1 and 13 ling Washington Office, No. 613 Fourteenth Btreet. Council Blufls Ofce. No. 12 Pearl Stroet. Lincoin Office, 1029 ¥ St eet, CORRES O NCR, All commanieat ons relating t) news and edi- forial matter suould be addressed to the Editor of the Liee, 000 500 250 200 20 , mailed to any Tribune BUSINESS LETTERS. ATl bnsiness letters and remittances shonld e addressed to | he Bee Pubiishing Company, Omaha, Drafis, clecks and postoilice oriers be made payablo to the order of tho company, The Bee Pablishing Company, Pronrictors Bk Bullding Farnam and Seventeenth Stroets. ine bee on the |ea There 18 no excuse for a failure to get Tne Brr on the trains, All newsaealers have besn notl- fled to carry & full supnly. [iavelers who want Trk Brr and can't get 1t on trains where other Omahavupers are carried are requested 1o no- Aty Tuk Bre THE Sworn Staten DAILY BE®. of Circulation. Etate of Nebraska, [ County of Douglas, h George B, Trschuck, secrataty of Tho Hes Publisning Company, does sulemnly swer that the actual circulation of Tk DAILY BEs for the week ending Soptember 21, 153, was as fol- lows Bunday. Sept. 1 0,0 Monday, Sept, 16, 511 Tuesday, Sept. 17.. K512 Wednesda; 84 18,612 Thursday, Sej b Friduy, Sépt. 3 BT Baturday, Sept. Average.......... GEORGE B. TZSCHUUK. . Eworn to before me and subscrined to in_my presence this 21st day of September, A. D, 1850, (Senl.] N. P. FEIL, Notary Publiz, Etate of Nebraska, ! County of Douglas. el George [3, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de. oses and says that he 18 secretary of Toe' Boo ublishing company, that the actual average dally eireniation of Tug DALY BEw for the month of September, 188, 15154 coples: for Oc- tober 1FRY 18,084 coples: for Nover ber, 188, 18« #80 coprest for December, 1888, 14223 coples; for January, 1640, 18,74, copies: for 'February, ‘1889, K006 capres; for March, 1589, (KN April, 1R, 18 65 for May, 1890 i coples; for 18,858, coples: for July, 1880, 18,631 coplos. B, TZSCHUCK, Sworn to before me and sibscribed in my Presence this #ist day of August, A. D)., 1840, [8EAL] N. P. I'rir., Notarv Public Tur husky voices of Sioux City's people will soon be heard shouting for their corn palnce. Sourn DAKOTA is said to be settling upvery fast, but the location of its capital is ns unssttled as ev PRESENT appearances: indicate that nothing can forestall the successful holding of the Omaha fat stock show. THE cattlemen of Texas are about to form a trust. If they do we can safely predict they will keep their stock well watered. T Chicago newspapers which are bravely endeavoring to have the sa- loons closed on Sunday will on to-day have another opportunity to sce how much progress they have not made. ‘WiAT has become of the Behring sea troubles? The war editors who have just gotten their pencils sharpened to enter the sanguinary fray, are like be out of a winter’s job unless hostilities are resumed soon. A SCHEME is on foot to establish a line of transportation between Omaha and Central and South America. The benefits those countries would derive from such an arrangement ought to be very apparent to Omaha. Tne new steel protected oruiser, Chicago,-the largest of the [our vessels built by John Roach, has been tried and her speed surprised everyone. If there is really anything in a name the Chi- cago couldn’t bo otherwise than unusu- ally fast. THE American exhibit at Paris is greater than that of any other foreign nation, particularly that important part of it presided over by Nebraska’s Hon. ‘William Cody. While other exhibits have won admiration, his has won big, cold, hard dollars. MAajor MERRILL, who was likely to succeed Tanner as commissioner of pen- gions, is reported to have talked him- self out of the position before he got inlo it. He has been speaking very freely to newspaper reporters, and the president, itis said, fears he would go the way of his predecessor. TaE country stands in need of a man who is able to invent an absolutely safe ansulating material which will do away with the constantly increasing danger from overhead wires. Nearly every day wecords the death of some person through carelessly handling electric ‘wires and the number of these accidents is constantly increasing. Tae foreign capitalist who has at- tempted to corner the American cotton market has undertaken to stretch his blanket a little further than iv will go. The mill owners and their employes have agrecd on joint action that will defeat the combine and the would-be mounopolist will be left with his hauds uncomfortably full of cotton. —— OUR enterprising contemporary, the Hevald- World, can hurdly lay claim to a patent rightv on the proposition to in- duce the American Bankers’ associa- tion to extend its tour from Kansas City to Omaha. That proposition was canvassod by Omaha bankers more than two weeks ago, before the editor of that sheet had ever thought of it. — THE party without an organ in Ne- ‘braska displays admirable courage and self-sacrifice in ‘“‘getiing together.” The meeting of the state centrai com- mittee in Omaha was not altogether a melancholy assemblage. What it lacked in numerical strength it made up in ubrestrained enthusiasm. The sombre trappings of woe were relieved by sprightly sprays of bourbon from the eountry. Out of seventy-eight counties in the state, four plucked up oourage and means sufficient to send five dele- gates to Omaha. Such remarkable zeal deserves to be embalmed with the records of the defunct greenback party. " dollars AN ART SCHOOL IN OMAHA. There is & growing sentiment in Omaha favorable to tha establishment of an art school. Since the organiza- tion, about a year ago, of the Western Art association, there has been a not- able increase of popular interest in art culture, greatly aided aud stimulated by the generosity of Mr. Lininger, the president of the association, in throw- ing open his fine gallery to the inspec- tion of the public. Many of our citizens whose taste in matiers of art has been cultivated ia older communi- ties, have became strongly impressed with the conviction that Omaha should have a school of art, and they are man- ifesting a disposition to take hold of the matter and carry it to a successful con- summation, There is the wealth, Jiberality and spirit in Omaha to accomplish this laud- able object if it be properly enlisted, and it is certainly one in every way worthy of the attention and interest of our best citizens. It is not neces- sary to enlarge upon the value of a properly conducted art school to the community as a means of popular culture. This is fully appre- ciated by all who takeany interest in the matter. As to the question whether such aschool could be made a success, the answer wou'd depend very largely upon the character of its management. We do not think it at all doubtful that a properly conducted art school, pr vided with thoroughly competent in- structors, could be made sell- sustaining from the start. And the enterprise should uot be un- dertaken except with the understand- ing that the school shall be equal in character, within its necessary limita- tions, to any in the country. The present is regarded by those in- terested in the matter as an opportune time to take the preliminary steps for establishing an art school in Omaha, and a number of the friends of the pro- ject have been invited to meet at the residence of Mr. Lininger to-morrow evening for an interchange of viewsas to the course that should be ndopted. It is to be hoped a gencral and earnest in- terest will be manifested, and that the movement for a school of art in Omaha will take shape at once and be carried to asuccessful conclusion. DEFPOI OR NO DEPOT. BostoN, Sept, 19.—To the itor of Tur Bee: The Union Paatic railroad company, through its president, Mr. Adams, has given w Omaha the conditions on which it will build a union depot, and which, we under - stand, are final with his company, viz: That o viaduct, as they have planned, ve built over the Tenth street crossing—this being an absolute necessity for the union depot— and that the city pay forit. Omaha's past negotiations with the company for good depot facilities for the rapidly growing city, and the indifference with which the Union Pacific company has invariably treated every effort of the citizens to secire their just rights and the fulfillment of contracts with the road, on account of which On has paid hundreds of vhousands of dollar: all this is past history familiar to us ail. Let us now look to the future, A union depot is guaranteed to be built immediately and the Towa roads have agreed with the Union Pacific to come over and occupy it jointly —so says Mr. Adams, a good authority. Butall this is conaitional that Omaha will pay for the | viaduct, This proposition cepted ut once and the without furtber Jdelay, so that the advantages may be secured without longer waiting. This will give a renewed impetus to ev business interest of the city, and the value of every foot of prop:rty within the city limits. The amount asked for 18 in- siguificant compared to the advantages Omaba will derive from the improvements. There can be no two sides to this question, Omaha has been hnmiliated long enough by the unsightly *Old Cowshed” that for these long years has given every stranger merely passing through such an unfavorable impression of Omaha. Secure the union depot, and ae quickly as possible. The un- dersigned, among the heaviest taxpayers of Omaha, urge this upon the ci Yours truly, B. I, Svuti ANp BroTuen. This letter hits the nail squarely on the head, Itis not for usat this time to carpand cavil about the bad faith shown by the Union Pacific in depriv- ing Omaha of union depot facilities. Nor would it avail usanything vo resent the demand of its managers for a bonus to pay them back for the cost of the Tenth street viaduct. The problem that confronts our citizens is—depot or no depot? It is well known that the Smith Brothers, of Boston, haye an in vestment in real estate in Omaha that exceeds a million in value. They own some. of the best business blocks in this city, and it stands to reason that they would not want to pay additional taxes unless thoy see clegyrly that it is to their bene- fit. In years gonme by they have been most adverse to Union Pacific aggres- sion and always outspoken in denuncia- tion of its shabby treatment of Omaha, Their conclusions with regard to the dopot and viaduct project are there- fore worthy of consideration by our taxpayers and property owuners. should be ac- work commenced enhance A CATHOLIC CENTEN ARY. The ceutenary of the establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in the United States will be commemorated in Balti- more on the second Monday in Novem- ber,at which time a Catholic congress will convene in that city. The occasion will be a noteworthy one in ecclesias- tical circles. It is the first assomblage of the kind ever attempted by the Cath- olics of this country, and its delibera- tions will be watched with kesn inter- est, not only by members of that church, but by all interested in the progress of christianity, The tirst Catholic bishop of this country was Rev, John Carroll, of Maryland, a nephew of Charles Car- roll, one of the famous signers of the Declaration of Independence. It is a significant fact that his successors in office, down to the present primaite of the church, Cardinal James Gibbons, imbibed the zeal and love of liberty which characterized the Carrolls. The public utterances of Cardinal Gibbons show him to be a man of broad patriot- ism, » staunch advocate of liberty, and an unflinching friénd of the struggling masses. His sentiments are in accord with the advanced spirit of the age, es- pecially on questions affecting the moral and material welfare of the people. This fact was demonstrated recently when he 1nterceded at Rome in favor of labor organizations. His voice is the ' voice of the church in this country, and his energetic action and advocacy in this instance placed the Catholic church in an advanced position as a supporter and friend of workingmen. The scove and personnel of the congress insure a distin- guished assemblage of laymen and clerics. A wide range of topics will be discussed by the learned men of the church, including education, temper- ance, various theological questions, the Catholic pross, ‘charities, the work of women and children in the' industrial world, and the relations of capital and labor. A SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. The raiironds of the United States do not pay the dividends they did from ten to fiftoen yenrs ago. A railrond which pays any considerable amount of in- terest to its sharcholders is *o-day an isolated The causes leading to this condition of affairs are many, but the chief reasons are watered stocks and over building of parallel and con- tiguous lines. A man can start out from this city and ride one hundred and seventy-six thousand miles on the rail- rouds of this country without once using the snme road twice. In other words there are one hundred and seventy-s thousand miles of railroad in the United States, which comprise one-half of the mileage of the entire world. The ronds are not uniformily extended over the area of tho entire country; some portions are too thickly gridironed, while other portions have little or no railroad facilities. If the roads were equally distributed there would hardly be enough to meet the requirements of the public, but as it is those localities which are especially favored with mile- age do mnot pay except in densely populated states like Massachusetts. There is nostate in the union where the mileage is so uniformly distri buted and pays so well as in Massachuseits. There is a mile of road to every four square miles of territory. But Massa- chusetts is an exception. In the west where the settlements are sparse and lines practically parallel each other, and enter the same fields for business, the ruinous effect of competition is felt. The present vast system of the Atchi- son, Topeka & Santa Fe paid large dividends when it had but a single line, but now it is on the verge of bankruptey onaccount of competition and building branch lines into small fields already oceupied by other roads. The fact that western roads do not pay. has led their officers and manugers into now channels of thought regarding their management and gradfal work- ing back to a paving basis. As overprodaction in industrial branches brings about the formation of trusts to regulate the supply, this idea has taken hold of railroad men, and there is now considerable talk of form- ing & trust for railroads. A New York banker advises the formation of what he terms the **North American Railrond Invest- ors’ union,” which shall be composed of the shareholders owning the control of the leading railroad corporations of the United States and Canada. The evils resulting from a reckless buildingof railroads in sections of the country where they are not needed, the corrupt operation of construction com- panies, and the paralleling of railroads for purp of blackmail, as illustrated in the building of the Nickel Plate road, are so pronounced that the officials have hit upon the trust plan as a remedy for the trouble. The railroad commission- ers of England have the power to pro- hibit, and have always exercised the right to enjoin the construction of parallel lines where they were not de- manded by public necessities. There is nc adequate law in this country govern- ing such cases. The ostensible purpose of a railroad trust, as set forth by the originator of the scheme, is to paevent a cutting of rates, which is so disastrous to railvoad prolits when business is not good. Asa startling illustration of the present tendency to cut rates to a ruin- ous extent it is only necessary to refer to recent rate wars. Such ruinous competition must neces- sarily inflict great loss on the roads, but the public are not gainers by the mat- ter for the reason that the subsequent efforts of the roads to regnin what the y have lost more than makes up the dif- ference in favor of the public. It is insisted on the part of the “road that the shareholders have the legal right to form a trust if they so desire. and the inviolability -of contracts is cited as an evidence of this right. This, however, does not fill the bill under supreme court decisions of most of the states, und of the United States. States have a right to regulate the charges of all common carviers, The greatest stop ever taken in this direc- tion was the passage of the inter-state commerca law. The regulation of rail- road charges under thislaw gave rise to the first idea towards a consolidation of railroad interests in this country. A harmony of interests ssems necessary to a largo number of railrosds if they are longer to existand do business. The public, however, will not be com- pelled to stand by and witness the form- ation of a railroad trust for purposes of public robbery in the putting up of freight charges to such an extent that the carrying business will not stand it and leave a profit for dealers and pro- ducers. The only means of protection the people have s a still further and more extended federal control of rail- road business. Under a nationsl law prohbiting dungerous railroad com- binations the various states may take the cue and pass analagous enactments for local purposes. If the railroad man- agers cannot make money under present conditions let them cease the cut-throat policy of building useless roads. Until they can come to see the matter in this light the railroad situation should be regarded as an ordeal through which the roads may pass or fall bankrupt by the wayside. It will prove a salutary lesson and the rule of the survival of the fittest may apply in this case as in more ordinary affairs. m—— TRICKS THAT ARE VAIN. Por ways thatare dark and tricks that are vain the heathen Chivee could not hold a candle to our double-barrelled contemporary. While the imposture case. that is practiced by that coneorn on it patrons d not concern THE BEE, it does scem 1s that some respect is due to tho pfbfssion. From one end of the .year to the other it is grand larcony and petit larceny, counterfer and passing spurious currency. W fucles clipped bodily from other papel ro pdlmed off as original, and associfterl press dispatches are published as specials. In fact every- thing thaty "o'muu by wire, and a good deal that dods not come by wire is headed ‘‘spgcial to the World-Herald.” And when the double-ender g ets badly scooped on 16cal news in the afternoon the report is sandwiched with other news in next morning’s issue, under the convenient heading, “from last night’s edition.” The most amusing thing about this wholesale piracy is the peri- odic interview with the crowned heads of Burope that the “‘special representa- tive” of the Mammoth Consolidated cables spécially to 1t, and the cool au- dacity with which these so-called in- terviews are dished up as exclusive when the same thing appears on the same day in about two hundred other dailies. There is nothing like doing a very big business on & very small amount of capital, 1S THERE TOO MUCH LEARNING? A protessor in one of the universities of Germany has recently issued a work giving statistics of the increase in the number of learned men in that country, which a London journal rofers to as alarming. There are twenty-one uni- versities in Germany, at which the average number of students enterod is tweonty-nine thousand. Of these hope- ful youths the Gottingen professor af- firms that fully one-half are doomed to a life of poverty and disappoint- ment. The vast majority of them are looking forward to becoming lawyers, or doctors, or preachers, or schoolmasters, or in some other way, either in private life or as servants of tho state, to carn their bread by means of the education they are so laboriously acquiring. What is true of Germany is true also. though perhaps in & less marked de- gree, of other BEuropean countries and of the United States. The rush to the learned professions s of steadily in- creasing volume, and if the statistics were at hand they would doubtless show that in proportion to population the rush isas in this countryandin Great Britain as it is in Germany. The consequences here, however, are less serious, It canniot be shown that one- half of those Who are proparing in this country for the learned professions, as the German professor shows with r spect to the youth of his own country, are doomed to a life of poverty and dis- appointment. . Doubtless a majority of them will beable to secure a respecta- ble livelihood, though probably very few of them willrealize their expecta- tions. But while the United States en- joys the advantages over Euro- pean countries “of a vigorous growth and increaslig opportunities, the limits to “whioh will not be reached for atiledsta century, yet it isa fact that already in portions of this country the ranks of the learned prof sions are over full, and at the rate at which they are being annually recruite there is danger that the time is not re- mote when what has come to pass in Germany will be experienced here, namely, that quite one-half of those who adopt the professions will be doomed to poverty and disappointment. The com- petition in the professions is yearly bo- coming sharper and more eager, and with it. necessarily, the rule of the sur- vival of the fittestis becoming more gen- erally operative. It is far more easy to point out the cause of this state of affairs than to apply the remedy. For at lenst a gen- eration the tendency to look to the ‘‘gentlemanly professions” in- stead of the more certain ecallings of a less “‘genteel” description, as the Lon- don Journal states it, has boen stead ily growing, and it seems likely to go on expanding for an indefinive time to come. The efforts to impress upon pa- rents that their sons arve likely to find greater security for theiv future in in- dustrial than in professional pursuits have had little or no effect, for the ob- vious reason that most parents are incapable of judging wisely and im- partially of the capabilities of their sons, while the sons themselves early learn to regard with disfavor all forms of manual labor. Thus it happens that thousands of young men who would have made suporfor carpsnters, or blacksmiths, or machinists, are sent outr to make a precarious battle for bread with professional titles they have not the ability to creditably sustain, There ure in every large city of the country many such who bitterly depre- cate the mistake they made, or the vanity and folly of pavents, and envy the industrious mochanic who is able to obtain a certain income and comforts that are beyond their reach. There is not toe much learning, but there is a far . general -misapplica- tion of learningyi|There is no reason why the mechanie should not be a man of education, and |he would certainly find ploasuro agd pnlargod chances in life in being n gghglar, besides the en- hanced esteem is fellow men. With the opportumtipg offered the boy of to-duy who bec an artisan may also socure advanced intelloctual acquire- ments, But thodifficulty is that such acquirements seprh'to antagonize man- ual labor. The Scholarly and thought- ful mechanic would be as il to be- come diusnlisl]:&with his calling as the professioual m no discovers after a sad and weary exjMrience that his lim- itations had not been correctly gauged. The problem suggested by the German professor has many phases, and it grows more serious and difficult from year to year. * But to the question whether there 18 too much learning a negative answer must be given, CRIMINAL EXTRAVAGANCE. The statement prepared by County Auditor Evans regarding the present and prospective cost of the new hospital presents a shameful exhibit of official extravagance. The original contract price for the building complete was one huondred and twenty thousand dollars. The county has already paid out within H seven] thousand of this sum, and the building is far from being completed. The estimates in sight and the incident- als will run the total up to one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. This is a reasonable estimate, and is more likely to be exceeded than reduced. A more disgraceful record of official recklessness has never before been pre- sented to the peoplo of Douglas county. Itis a willful and criminal waste of public money, The commissioners can- not be accused of ignorance in the mat- ter. They knowingly permitted and sanctioned the robbery. I'rom the in- ception of the job to the present time the majority of the board stood by the greedy and incompetent contractors, approved estimates and paid out money on inferior work, and al- lowed the jobbers to draw on the treas- ury boyond the limit of ordinary prudence. If the commissioners are not interested in protecting the contractors, they have shown thom- selves shamofully incompetent to pro- toct tho intorests of the publie. * ‘What has the county to show for the expenditure of one hundred and twelve thousand dollars? A ramshackle struc- ware of inferior material, propped up to prevent its falling of its own weight. The whole job is a disgrace to the county, a erumbling monument to offi- cial neglect and public means recklessly squandered OMAHA might emulate the example of Chicago in appointing some one to see that poor children attend school. In Chicago it is thought that 10,000 children will be found who have not clothing suitable to wear to school, and whose parents declare they are too poor to supply them. In Omaha the number of such 18 comparafively small, but, no doubt, there are a good many cases that should be looked after. A slight pres- ent gain is a much greater future loss where the children of the poor are kept from school for financial reasons, The welfare of the governmont depends upon the inwlligence of the people. A full school attendance is a future aid to law and order. A PROMPT conviction and sentence to two years imprisonment for the at- tempted murder of her servant will have a tendency to convince Mrs, Eva Ray Hamilton and others that **Jersoy Justice™ is not, the same kind that gov- erns various other parts of this country. In this and other sections of the westa woman hasonly to make up her mind what crime she desires to commit, and then commit it. Able lawyers stand veady to offer their sympathetic serv- es at merely a nomimal fee. In nine cases in a hundred she will be acquitted amidst cheers and tears and receive the homage of a sensation- loying community. THE movement for a fat stock show in Omaha this fall should receive substan- tial encouragement [rom our people. Omaha is in the center of the stock raising region, possessing the third market of the country, surrounded by a territory abundantly supplied with graded herds to make an exhibit of the kind a success. Nebraska and Towa stockmen have in tho last few years made wouderful strides in ing and procuring improved stock, and if proper inducemeuts are offered they would con- tribute lavgely to the success of a fat stock show in Omaha. Philadelphia Press, The surplus at Washington still lives. That is what bothers our friends, the enemy. Sullivan and the Tariff. Chicago /lerald, It Mr. Sullivan goes to congross it is hoped that his personal desiro for the removal of the tax on whisky will not overcome his loy- alty to sound tariff reform principles. Short Stage Waits in Hayti. Chicago News. Another revolution is predicted in Hayti , although General Hippolyte has not yet fin- ished unpacking his cerpet bag in the blue room of the palace, D Asle in St Lows, St. Louis Republic. Some of the sub-commitices appointed to canvass their respective liues of trade for subscriptiony to the world's fair guarantoe fund seem to bo asleop. It is time to wake up and get to work - The Sch ne of the Democrats, Chicago Inter-Ocean, Democrats of Ohio have no hope of eloct- ing their governor, but they are scheming to elect a democratic legislature. That is the plum they want, They will hardly tind Ohio republicans asleep in November, ——— ious Undertaking. Chicago Times, In tho account of the floods and landslides in Japan the statement is made thata cor respondent mado his way laboriously over the rvins of the towns of Nugatono- mura, Yanisomura, Uyencikemura and Hay- ashimura, along the course of the river Totsugawawoc. He did not have half so hard atime of it asthe man will who reads this paragraph out loud. A Labc - A Champion of the Sex. Florida Times-Union, ““Don't let that howling 1diot across the street,” roars a southwestern contemporary, “'dare w insinuate that we hold in other but tenderest regard the sweet girly of the south, We have had several erandmothers, one dear mother and two step-mothers, eight sisters, twenty-eigit sweethearts and three wives, ull native and to the mauor born, Don’t let that howling idiot accuse us of disloyalty.” R Autum Exehange, With shy brown eyes she comes again With hair a sunny silken skein, As full of light as golden rod; Love in her voice, love in her nod. She treads 8o softly no one knows ‘The time she comes, the time she goes. The grass is brown, the leaves bogin Their gold and crimson dyes to wia. Each cricket sings us loud as ten To drown the noisy locust, when You come, O maid, to bid us ery, To summer sweet & loug good-by. And when yon go the leaves are gone; The aster's farewell scent is owan ; Poor Cupid puts away his wings, Aud close to cozy corners clings. “Phe rude wind nshers with & shout, The winter in, the autuma out. There's sadness in her shy brown eyes, Though gay ber gown with tawny dyes; Love's in her voice, but tolling most Of one whose loved. but loved and lost. She treads so softly no one kaows, The time sue comes, the time she goos, TREY'RE ONLY MEMORIES NOW Changes In Dixle Sinoce the Days Bofo' the Wah. KING CORNON COTTON'S THRONE Scenes of Progress, Thrift and Plonty Along the Nashville Road—An Ideal Kailroad Manager and His Men. The Dixie of To-dny. CRATTAN00GA, Tonn., Sept. 17.—|Editorial Correspondence.] — I am now convinced beyond a doubt that the war is over. The butternut and gray have disappeared from Dixie Land. Homospun jeans are 100 ox- pensive for common people. The lantern- jawed, lank and hungry-looking patriot, with long hair, combed back behind his ears, has become a natural curiosity. Scotoh snuff is no longer “‘dipped” by fashionable young la- aies, as of yore. The only reminders of olden times down here are the hybrid mule and pro- lific darkey. Mules are almost ev- erywhere, patiently plodding in the fleld; racing in front of the horse ocar, or fi ing along with aload of market “truck.” KEven the negro has undergone a change. Before the war I seldom met a negro, old or young, on & city street or coun- try road, who did not politely salute with a “Good mornin’, massa.”” Now, when a white man moeets a negro he must get out of his way 1f_he does not want to be jostled or run over. Not that the freedman or uncouth than was the slave, but because he is no longer aependent and considers him- solf better than a good many of the white race with whom he comes in contact. Tho change that has taken place since the war ampressed itself upon moe at every step. Plantations in middle Tennessoe which formerly were devoted to cotton cul- ture are now mostly given up to corn, which has become the chief staple all the way from Nashville“ to the conessee river. Only here and there small fields of cotton still re- mind us of the times when cotton was king. Farming that was formerly carried on with implements no better than those in vogue in Mexico is now conducted with the most im- proved machiery. High bred cattle may be seen on every hand, and the dilapidated farm cabios with tue traditional chimney on the outside are few and far betweer. Vil- lages, towns and cities have sprung up within the last twenty years,-and the hum of indus- try may be heard on every hand. The only drawback to rapid growth and substantial prosperity is the iuferior cheap labor which keeps away the more skilled work- man. So long as the negro laborer is willing to work for a dollar a day the white laborer must accept the same wage or starve. The law of demand and supply is inexorable. As yeu there is no_serious conflict between the white and black in their struggle for sub- sistance, but there is no telling wheu the time muy come. In Nashville and Chattanooga, and all along the road, white and black laboross were working side by side, and, as farasI could learn, no discrimination on account of color is made in any factory or workshon. The house servants are all colored, but, to my surprise, I find that Chincse laun- dryman are more numerous in the south than 1 the west. The heathen Chinee somehow manages to outstrip his female competitor of African descent in the competition for launary work. The Chinaman pays no attention to the eight-hour law, and is not overburdened with famil " The most surprising of all the changes that have come under my eye was that of the Nashville & Cuattanooga railroad, When 1 first struck that road, in 1859, it was the most wretched streak of rail L had ever be- held. The rails were of the ancient and ob- solete U shape, laid on stringers, with very little ballast und us shuky as a plank walk. The branch from Wartrace to Shelbyville was a primitive snake-road, flat bands of iron nailed down to stringers, Although the trains on this branch ran only at the rate of six miles an hour, passengers were often dis- turbed by the iron bands poking up through the car fioor. On the main line the highest spoed any ongineer dured to attempt was twenty miles an hour. ‘When our train had fairly pulled out of the Nashville depot, I seated myscll near the open door of the rear car, by the side of John Thomas, the superintendent. I haa walked every foot of this roud between Neshville and Chattanooga in my searches after brokei. telegraph wires. I had traveled over the road many times on the locomotive, passenger coach and freight caboose. Now, I had a curiosity to see what the roud and the country through which it runs looked like. Instead of the old rickety roud- bed, with its ups and downs, I found inysolt ubol the most perfectly ballasted roadway in America, without exception. The Penn sylvania rwilroad scarcely equals it in point of solidity and = smooth- ness. Tho -old U rail” nad disappeared and 10 its place was the very bestof stecl rail of modern pattern with fish-tuil joints, ‘Ihe ramshackle station houses and sheds that formerly served as such had given w to model stations that would grace the New York Central. Many of these station-houses are handsome brick and stone buitdings, sur- rourded by plots of flower beds and shrub- bery. ‘Uhe culverts and bridges, which for- merly were of doubtful safety, were all of stone and iron and the equipment of the road was better than that of any road west of Chicago. Wo were on an accommodation train that stopped at all stations, and yet the entire 161 miles from Nashville to Chattanooga, including as it does the heavy grades through the Cumberland mountuius and the steep and tortuous windings of the Tennessee river, were made in six hours and aquarter. ‘The run between stations, most of the way, was made av & speed of forty miles au hour. The warvelous improvement in this road is due wholly to the indomitable energy of tne present management, When asked how this state of perfection was brought about, Mr. Thomas, who 18 8 very plain und unassuming young man, replied: “Ihave been working ut this thing for years, and I take great pride in keeping up the road in first-cluss style. 1 know every inch of this road, and almost every cross-tie. I have run a locomotive, reg ular und special, nearly five years, and then 1 have been connected with its aetive opera- tion in several depurtmonts,’’ Every time we passed a freight train a gang of soction hunds or @ station there was alwilys greeting between the men and super- intendent. “Hello, Jim!" Thomas would cry out.” “Glad to see you, John,” was the ready answer. ‘I'hese cordinl greetings botween superin- tendent and the railroad men was very pleasing feature, and in striking contrast with what | had secn on other roads, It ex- tended not alone to conductors, enginecrs and firemun, but o brakemen, section bosses and section hands. Thomas seemed Lo know every wan on the road, and every man not only kuew him, but scemed to like him, “] have never had any trouble with our men,” smd Thomas, “and don't expect ever to nave. I takea personal iterest in them. If aoyboay has apythiog to com- plain of he comes to me. We keop our men as loug as they are able to work, [f any man, or set of men, should raise & hand against me, there would be @ thousand men ready L down him 1o less than uo time."” Ihis close communion between the super- intendent of a great road and his men forei- biy recalled the Burlington strike, where a haughty manager caused the company ) 000 of loss, when a man like Thomas would have averted the trouble that cost many men their lives and threw hundreds out of em- ployment. On we went through the fertile hills and valleys of Davidson and iutherford counties, The country round about looked charming with its corn and tbacco fields, meadow and evergreen forest with its famous red cedar. Aud here we approach Stone river and the battleground thut gave Rosecrans his great- est victory. As the train passes the bridge moro - rude | noross Stone river acres upon acres of small white hoad-stones groet our view in the National comeotery enclosed by & stone wall, A shrill whistle and wh are in Murfreesboro, whore 1 had lived in tho early summer of 1550. The old statfon in which my office was then located 18 gone, and in its place & handsome stono- wrimmed brick, with commodious waiting rooms, elogantly furnished with plust-seated chairs and sofas, fixtures are doubtless a testimoninl on the part of the presidentof the road to his old friends and the town in which he speot the et part of his life. Murfreesboro has not changed very much, if T could judge at the distance from the * depot. Her most conspicuous building, the court house, built 1n my time, and upon the walls of which I had seen negro slave girls carrying the hod up a high ladder, was still where in its old grandour. On we went-—over the Cumberland range to Tullaboma and Decherd. It was piteh dark woon we reached Anderson, ““T'he next station is Stevenson,” sad I, stepuing on the vlatform tho brakeman, “Bass’ Sta. t10n i8 botween horo and Stevenson,” “Thut's a new station ! suid 1. Yot by u ood deal,” was the reply, has been bailt,” “But 1 know better,” sma I here when | was on the road.” “Weil. I have been on the road fifteen yoars and Buss' station was horo long before hat,” “Well" said T, “that'snothing. I was the oporator at Stevenson, on this roud, thirty years ago. “1hen,” exclaimed a tall young man, who stood on the platform, “your name must bo Rosewater . ‘' I'hat’s my name, sir."” 1 reckonad it must be. I heard my fathor talk about you, and the controversy you had with Jeff Davis over tho speoch he made down at Stovenson, when the war broke out. Fathor was there and he heard it, and said YOU waa right ! Evidently this young man’s fathor was one of the union mountaineers who took such A0 ACUVO DUt AgAinst Secession &b the out- break of the war. Before I had tine to ask him another uestion or even his nawme, the train pulled out. 3. ROSEWATER. Wy bere ever since the road was *it was not SEE US. AS OTHER When Omaha is Nebraska. rney Enterprise. Omaha has been some time about it, but has at last made up her mind to entertain the South American delegates in becoming style. It is strango that the metropolis of Nobraska should be so slow to actupon a matter affoct- fng her roputation for hospitality and enter- prise as this does. Omaha ought to feol that she 18 not only Omaha, but Nebraska on such occasions, She should be the first to come forward aud do the handsome thing. o Many Fos i1, Hastings Nebraskan . Omaha is all right and a typical city of true western pluck and energy when she gots the notion, but she scems to fall into a state of lethargy oceasionally that takes a great deal of duuble-leaded newepaper talk to broak. This particular kind of hot shot is now baing fired off by the pressof the city to organize some movement for the proper recoption of the foreign delegates to the international congress, Omaha scems handicapoed by a 1ot of old fossils who have survived a gener- ation entirely too slow for tha spirit of the present ave. Kearney Sotting the Pace, Louis Globe-Domocrat, Nebraska is not generally re; cotton-growiu state, but such a large qr - tity of cotton has been raised in it ¢ ata company is erccting a mill at Kearn.y, in order that the profits on the mauufwture may be kept within the state, The ,roject will be watched with intereat by other states hitherto regarded s shut out of the cotton business by cliniatic influencoes, ot ol The he Pennant, Li Courier. Tre OMaua Bes trains a heav on base ball and te aditorial 5 us thatthe game is “now" regarded with favor by all classes, Of courso it glories in the succoss of the Omahas. But waib until next year. If the team doesn’t keep up its pace the how! that will go up from Omaha will bo heard in Chj- cago. That is a serious objeetion to winning the pennant in a minor leas ts Woer Too Provions, Chicago News. Well, Judge Groff of Omaha, has been ap- pointed commissioucr of the general laud office, 80 the Washington correspondants who said that ex-Congressman Thomas was dead sure of tkat posinon will have to try ay least onco more to find something for that gentleman. Corresponde: Henri's Litdle Fling, Louisvill> Courter-JTournal, Bishop Newman must have partaken too freely of Omaha refroshments bofore ho bo- gan his remarks on Southern matters, Showed What She Ooutd Do. COrete Globe, The Omaha exposition Omaha can do when sho re spread herself. The fair looma1 up baside it like a fence post besido tne Biffel tower, As an advertisiog scheme the thing was a success. Any one wanting angthing from o cedar toothpick to a steam engine, had but 1o look through the various exhibits till he found the article of his heart's desire. Of @ verity the exp osition exposod. S SR ON THE SIDE, The unammous sentiment regarding tho motor briage line fare seems to be about @ five-centiment, The aity suthoritics should create & new office the holder of which will be known as the royal keeper ot the peanant. His duties will be to keep the dust off that interesting trophy and exbibit it to distinguished visitors. ® If the international congress could have only scen tho Owmaba nive play ball, eur reputation s the best western city would have been fully established. 1f the bridge motor line Wants to do something fine “That greatly its patrous will tickle, 1t should nov refuso To promptly reduce 1t's teu-ceut fare down to a nickel. The weather proguosticators who are now vigorously predicting an unusually cold winter are supposed to be in the employ of conl dealers. A cold winter is bad enough, but to be frighteued with it several months in advanco of its comg 18 even worse, Whe Summer Girls, Philadzlphia Press, Tiaesummer girls are flocking home From seaside and from mountain. From ovening's whisper-luden gloam Aud love song-tinkling fountain, Their rounded cheoks are Wearing now ‘The red of summer roses; Their steps ure light as zephyrs blow, Aund graceful are their poses. Can girls be lovelier thaa thesel Can hope in such hearts swolder] Ab, tinie flies 6'on for girls at ease— They are wedded not and older, B A Modern Adaptation. Chicago | ribune, Now let the prairie hen go weep, ‘The suipo ungalled play, For the game is safest when iv's cheap. 50 runs the world to slay, —_—— People who call one another liars often ges nurt for telling the truth. These rather superd g