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THE DAILY BEE. B ROSEWATER, Hditor. — - PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SULSCRIPTION, }"nfl( and funday, One Ye: Hx Months .. . . Three Momths, . Bunday Ites, One Year . . Weekly Bee, Ono Yenr with OFFICES, Omaha, Bee Bullding, Chicago OMce, %7 Rool y Baliding Now York, Hooms 14 and 15 Tribune Build- nge Washington. No. 613 Fourtornth Council Blufis, N 2 Pearl Stre: Lincoln, 1029 P St 10 0 500 200 minm 20 Street, CORRESPON DENCE, ANl communieations relatiig to news and edt torinl matter siiould be addr to the Editor- 181 Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. All Unsiness letters and remittances should be addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafis, checks and postofiice orders to Yo ninde payable to the order of the corpan: The Beo Pulishing Company, Proprietors e Bullding Farnam and Seventeenth Streets. The Iee on the Trains. There 18 no excuse for a failure to get Tir BE| on the trains, Al newsaealers have been not fed to carry T8 Who want T Ber n trains where other Omaha b o requested to no- THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Etate of Nebraskn, Tat County of Douglas, (% George B, Tzschuck, sccretary ot The Bes Publisiing Company, does solemily swear i the actual circulation of U1k DAILY BEg for eek ending Octobel Tuesday, Oct Inesdn Thursday, Friday, Oct. Baturduy, Oct. 18.050 CHLUCK. £worn to before me and subscribed to i my presence this 25th day of October, A. D), 1840, (Eenl.) N.P. FELL, Notary Pubii, Etate of Nebraska, | County of Douclas, | Georpe i1, Izschuck, bel Ores and says that he ublishing company, t daily circnlation of Ti month_of October & for Novembe December, 188 unry, 116, 1857, copies K006 copress for Mareh, 0, 18, April, 189, 1859 copiess for Ma: copi or' June, 1840, TRAGR, cople 88D, 14,708 coples: for Aliguiat, 1880, 1%, for ‘September, 1881, 18710 coples. GO, B TzsCHUCK, ™m to before me and subscribed in my presence this 4th day of October, 1850, [SEAL] N.P. Frir, Not SENATOR MANDERSON, it is said, will propose at the next session of congross the appointiment of a senatorial com- mittee to investigate the causes leading to Tanner’s remova Mr. Tanner has been removed and it will be wise for the senator to leave the subjectseverely alone. Average.. 1 duly sworn, de. ecretucy of Tae' Bay at_the actual averags DALY BeR for the 64 copless for Jan- for February, ‘1580, coplds; for 189, 18,800 fot Jul copiess copl TuHE restoration of the king of Samoa by the Germans is regavded asa tri- umph by both English and American pupers for their respective govern- ments. Englund’s attitude of virtual neuatrality does not entitle that country to near as much credit as the United States, because our officials took a de- cided stand and maintained it to the close of the controversy. iouers of Towa prepared statistics showing that in that with 8,000 miles of railroads, 852 brakemen were killed or injured in 1888 on account of the use of the common linkand pin coupling and the hand brake on freight cars. Practical safety brakes and couplers have been invented and may be readily obtained. yet the majority of railroads continue to disregard appeals to humanity just as they delayed the adoption of a substitute for the death- dealing stove on passenger cars until compelled to do so by law. alone, THE eleventh census will soon be taken. The work connected with the census of 1880 covered a vast field, but congress Las added to the labor of the now count by ordering an inquiry in relation to the statistics of the indebt- edness of private corporations and in- dividuals. Taking the large increase of all kinds of business intel and industri 0 the country since 1880 as n standard, it will ily be seen that the work about to commence will be a far greator undertaking than any former one in this direction ts i concluding lettor of the highly interesting series descriptive of the politic 1d social life of the countries of the castern world, by Mr. Frank G. Carpentor, is printed this morning. Th letters have constituted a most interesting feature of the SUNDAY Ber for a year past, and have given the reader a better idea than could havo been obtained from any other source of the institutions and customs of the Orient, and of the characteristies and social habits of the peoples of the eastern world, Not only is Mr. Carpenter one of the most en- tertaining of correspondents, but he has no superior as a carcful and intelli- gent obsorver, while his industry in hunting instructive facts, and his fac- ulty of finding them are proverbial. Mr. Carpenter has in rescrve a gredat deal of valuable matorial gathered in his extended travels, and we expect to be able to announce at an early day an- other scries of letters from him of the most interesting character, TuE year 1899 will go into history for the romarkable character of its calami- ties, The floods of China and Japan that bave drowned tens of thousands of people; the breaking of the reservoirs at Johuston and other places; the ex- plosion of millions of cartridges at Antwerp; the accident on the Irish railway; the fall of the vooky heights of Quehee; the ocenan storms on the At- lantic const; the constant floods in one section of the couuntry and severe droughts in another; the narrow escape from & tervible disaster at Milwaukee during the meet- ing of the G. A. R., when the bluff on which 100,000 spectators were seatod, watching the naval battle, moved six inches and was only pro- vented from drowning thousands in the lake by a railway wull at the foot; the dropping out of the bottom of a furnace near Pittsburg, burning and rousting several victims, are 1nstanocesof nature’s ingenuity 1o inflicting uries on man- kind. The yeur 1s not yet over and the steange nnd unprecedented variety of casualties may not yet be exhausted. ‘We may hope, however, that it has. THE AN APPEAL 70 COBURN. William Coburn has been twice honored by the republicans of Douglas county with the lucrative position of sheriff. During both of these terms ho has also been a membor of the bonrd of education. His conduct in these re- sponsiblo positions has not always been exemplary or commendable, The fact that he was re-clected to the school board last year by a large majority « paraded as a vindication from gravo charges, As o matter of fact it wns merely a proof of Coburn’s popularity with school ‘tenchers and school house janitors and his unserupulous use of the sheriff’s patronagoe in the school elec- tion. Mr. Coburn will make the hislife if he persists in his for a third term. Unless he is bereft of realizo that he needs aun party to insuve ro-clection. This is simply out of question, Mr. Co- burn’s candidacy can only end in his porsonal defoat, and may also prove dis- astrous to the whole county ticket. In the interest of the ropublican party, we appenl to Mr. Coburn to witharaw. Gratitude toward the party to which he is so much indebted would dictate such a course. A ro- gard for his own reputation should impel him to withdraw. We say this in no spirit of malice or vindictiveness. Tne BEE has treated Mr. Cohurn with the utmost indul- gence, and Mr. Coburn has treated Tine Bee ) ly at all times. Its ovpositon 18 not personal. But we have become convinced that Mr. Co- burn is a dangerous man in the sherill’s office. His sympathy with criminals is too pronounced and bis alliances with the lawless ssos do not comniend him as a candi- date for sheriff. Much as we desire the success of the ropublican ticket we hold good government above party success. Unleéss Mre. Coburn withdraws we shall do our duty and our whole duty and Mr. Coburn understands what that means, It remains with him to suve the party from disaster and himself from humiliating and overwhelming defeat. <o of oy mist candi sason he must edrepablican GERMAN WORKM S INSURANCE. Within the past six yedrs the German government has cstablishod a system for the compulsor nce of work- men ngninst sickness, aceident, disabi ity from old age, and permanent in- firmity. The operation of this peculiar system is explained in the Octobor Forum by Professor Taussig. Only the classes commonly ecalled are affected by the system, and practically all such—men, womer and children— are incurcd. They must be insured whether they will or not. There is no chowce, but the compul- sion is applied, not directly to the workmen, but primarily to the employ- ers. It is vequired of employers that they shall act as nts for the enroli- ment of the insured and the payment of the premiums. They are bound to give notice, within three days aftor employ- ment begins, of every person hired by them who comes within the ms of the act, and they ave bound to pay the i »miums, on hehalf of their employ A zood part of these charges, moveover, they must pay out of their own pockets. They are en- titled to deduct from the stivulated wages of their workmen two-thirds of W] they pay to the urance fund, but one-third they must pay out of their own means. ‘T'he workman himsell has nothing whatever to dowith the process of joining the insurance organization, or of paying the contributions by which the benefits are made possible. “There are several sorts of insuring bodies, the most common being the local sick associntions, which the local authoritics of every city, town or village have the power to establish, and the manage- ment of these associations is sub, the surveillance of the loc: Any capitaiist who employs as many as fifty persons may establish an indepen- dent association, whose members are his own workmen only, or the authori- ties may compel him to doso. Volun- tary friendly ties ave parmitted to be organized, composed of workmen alone or workmen and employes united, the requirement being that they shall guarantee as much in the way of benefits the compuls associations give, The benefMts to the workman who falls sick are liberal. o gets free me attendance, with medicine and all needed surgical and medical applinnces. If he is disablod from work he gets asick pay of one- half his wages, not excecding, howover, one and one-nalf marks—yu mark is oqual to twenty-five cents—per day. If illness ends fatally, and it did not result from some vice or culpable excess, the ussociation pays to the repre- sentatives of the deceased a lump sum amounting to twenty times the day wages of a common la- borer. When sickness results from vicious practices the benefits may be granted only in part, and may even be denied altogether. At most, the bene- fits are granted for a pariod of thirteen weeks, Insuvance against accident does not bocome operative until the lapse of thirteen weeks after the injury is reccived, if the person injured at the end of that time is still suffering from it, and only those accidents which oceur in the course of a person’s em- ployment give a claim to reliel. The accident insurance associations are composed wholly of employers, who pay ail the oxpenses. The workmen are represonted on boards of arbitra- tion, and the associations are under government superintendence, everv- thing they do being subject to the will of the 1imperial 1usurance bureau. The injured workman hasall the expenses of cure paid for him, and if his disa- bility lasts beyond thirteen weeks he gots a pension, lusting so long us he is disabled. 1f completely and perma- nently disabled he gots for life & pen- sion of two-thirds of Lis former wages. If the disability is only partial, the pension is two-thirds of what he has lost iu earning cupacity. When an aceident results fatally the family of the maun is provided for. An act passed last Muy provides for pensioning old and disabled workmen. The provision thus made for German workmen 1wposes one condition in rorking’” OMAHA DAILY BEE: ordor to establish the right of its en- joyment, and that is work, A man isn membor of a sick association only so long ns ho works; ha gots “benefits for such acciderts - only as ovear while he s at work, the peon- gion system requirves a period of contri- butions which are paid only while the man works. In order to get his insuc- ance, of whatever sort, a man must work, and this inséparablo connection of work and benefits, remarks Professor Taussig, is relied on by the Germans to prevent those demoralizing effocts which threaten overy effort of good will and charity for the poor. Whether or not the Gorman schome is altogother wise and beneficont a longer trial of it will demonstrate. AN IMPORTANT VISIT. The delegates 1o the conference of the three Americas, who have started upon their tour of the count will be in Omaha, if there is no disarrange- ment of the present programme, Octo- ber 26 and 27. A committee of citizens has beon appointed to arrange for the proper reception and entertatnment of these distinguished visitors, and it scems timely to suggoest that this com- mittee should promptly effect all nec sary arrangements, and not leave them to the last few days beforo the ar 1 of the delegates, It is desivable that on this occasion Omaha’s hospitality shail be of a character to make the most favorable impression upon the vis- itors, and that the arrangements shall be such as to omit nothing that will en- tertain and intevest them. As their trip westward will end here, we should endeavor to send them away adequately impressed with the energy. enterprise and spirvit of the west, while at the same time showing that we re capable of as genorous hospi- tality any of the older nities they will visit on their tour. They will sce elsewhere 1 v interost- iug things not possessed by Omaha, hut they should reecive nowhere a moro covdial and hearty welcome. 1t is not only due to the high charac- ter of the foreign delegates to the con- e that they should everywhere re- ceive from our people the most distin- guished consideration, butat is due to ourselves, The plan of the congress originated with the United States, and the objects it s intended to sabserve are of supreme interest to this country. As has been pertinently said by Me. W. E. Curtis, the representative of the government in directing the tour of tho delegates, the Soath and Central American cou s are not sceking our teade, we are king their’s. It is therefore a mat- ter of the first necessity chat we shall deraonstrate to the official representa- tives of those countries that the United States, with its practieally unlimited wealth, resources and variety of an- factured products, cun supply all their material wants, and that while seeling their markets for its manufactures it offers them a great and rapidly growing mavket for their raw materials, Th. itors are men of high intelligence and influsnce in their respective countries, and ti representations to their people will bo aceepted with unguestioning confidence. That their obsorvations will tend to greatly increase the respect of their people for the United States, which is the first essential step to enlarged and closer commercial relations, inot be doubted. It is ther as fore most® important that every community visited shall heartily attest its appreciation of the event, and while extending a generous hospitality, provide for enabling the visitors to see the very best it has to present. Other cities along the route arranged are preparing to do this, and it is not too early for Omaha to begin prepara- tions. It will be better to have all ar- rangements made a week in advance of the event than to crowd all the work of proparation into the last week before the arrival of the delegate MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. Nations are communi of homes. Every inspiration and sac springs from @ desire to protect to the hearth- stone. The ties which bind mankind to country or nationality have their bo- ing 1n the home. Tt matters not where man or woman journeys, how far dis- tant business or pleasure may take them, or how great the attraction other countries or other climes may pos thoy invariably return with surpassing joy to the spot hallowed by memories of childhood or domestic happinesss, utte ing the immortal words of Payne, ¢ “There’s no place like home.” The home is the foundation of gov- ernment in all civilized coun- trios, without it goverments and poople would rapidly degenerate into the barbarism of the datk uges and the lights of christianity go out in a hesom of immorality. The first and most important duty of & gov- ernment is to protect the home, to make domestic life a question of seri- 58, ous moment, not of sentiment, a ques- ticn of caution and common sense, not of impulse. The diversity of marriage and di- vorce laws in tho states have hecome a seandal and disgrace. They have en- couraged and legalized the union of youths, or youth and old age, and bred misery, misfortune and suicide, The courts daily tell the story of disrupted homes, of scatterad fumilies and broken hearts, largely due to the laxity of the laws. This deplorable stute of affairs is not confined to the United States, It is prevalent throughout the civilized world, ‘and presents a startling coa- trast to the happiness of the mar- ringe state in semi-barbaric countries, ““In India, with its two hundred mill- ion inhabitants,” says Siv Edwin Ar- nold, in & recent lecture in Cambridge, ‘‘there never occurs a marriage of in- clination, yet there are more happy marriages in India, more happy homes, more pure domestic relations, than in any other part of the world,” We cannot actept the light of Asia to illumine our path to domestic happi- ness, To make marriage a matter of barter and trade, as in Iudia, is repul- sive, neither is it desivable that the old world custom of parents forcing child- ren nto murriage agaiust their will for pecuniary ends, should obtain in this SUNDAY, OCTOBER i o BRSPS 6, 1880-SIXTEEN ¥ "o PAGES. country. " Tut a great reform can be effected by a uniform marriage and di- o lawg gaA national law is essential to the i‘r‘}ul health of the country. States cdnnot cope with this nportant sguostion because of their inability 0 unite on a uniform law. Itis Mrtainly within the province of congross Lo logslate on this subject and protocs family ties from the grow- mg evil of marital frecdom. Provision should bdimpde for the future wellare of the counbey by placing restrictions on divorc® Rnd prohibiting divorced persons from marrying again for a pe- riod of say one year. The marriage age shouvld be advanced, and all por- sons authorized to porform the cere- mony should be visited with severe punishment for violation of the law. The granting of divoreos should bo lim= ited to courts ostablished for that pur- nd completo recor lcopt of all marriages and diyorces. A systom of courts under federal con- trol would larg diminish the scanda- lous divorce business, which in many states has bocome a mere - matter of costs. without regard to morais. It would prevent the disgraceful marriage of mere children by ministers too anxious for money, str hen family tios and clevate tho marriago velation above the plane of sentiment and pas- sion, PO 70 EUROPE BY RAIL. Sir Edward Watkins, the great Eng- lish engineer, recently declared that he an tunnel the British channel, and that through trains will soon be running from London to Caleutta. The trains may not stop there, but continue on around through Asia to the Behring straits, Kight or ten years ago a BEE attache first conceived the idea of railrond communication between North America and Kurope. Sufficient statistical in- formation w: obtained concerning Alaska in this country and Siberia in the Russian empire to warranc the opinion that a railivad through these sections of the world could be made self-sustain- ing from the stact. The salient points wore presented in a pamphlet of fifty or sixty pages to the Russian authorities and a correspondence continuing through several months resulted in the ezar requesting an audience with the projector of the scheme. Alexander is said to have been greatly plensed with the idea of a lroad in Siberia con- necting with this country. He could see that its tendency would be to settle Siberia, many portions of which are yaluable for agricultural and other purposes. Obstacles presented themselves the time, and when the trip bocame practicable the czar was dead. The matter therefore rested. The proposed route included the Un- ion Pacilic’ahd Oregon Short line to Portland. -From Portland it was in- tended to construct a line to the nar- rowest pointin Behring strait, bridge the channzl and continue the road through Russia into Burope. It was understood, and partially agreed. that the Russian. government would build the line in its own territory, - und contribute its proportiona share toward the con- struction of the Behring straits bridge. Suflicient rital could be procured in this country to build to Alask Dur- ing the pust fow years the project has been seriously discussed and 1ts practic- ability thoroughly demonstrated. Sev- eral wealthy men have given the sub- jectconsiderable consideration and Rus- sia issaid to be willing at any time to entec into the work. The time may yet come when an Omuha man may take the cars and ride to Paris, London or any of the Europ- can capitals without change of cars. 1t will no doubt be a source of pride to local residents to know that an Omaha man lirst conceived the ideaof an inter- national railroad. JosepH PULITZER, proprietor of the New York World, has crowned his many deeds of genorosity by establishing sixty collegiate scholarskips for poor boys, who are to be selected from the public schooisof Now York, Mr. Pulit- er’s special object is to help the voor. Having worked his way from tho foot of the ladder to the topmost round, he knows the struggles and hardships of poverty aud the almost insurmountable difficulties which deprive the children of the poor of aliberal education. *The rvich can help themselves,” says Mr. Pulitzer in explaining his motives and purposes. My injunction against favoritism must therefore be con- strued as admitting favoritism to the poor. But it is not the aim of this plan to help people for ordinary mone y-mak- ing purposes. College education is not needed for that. There are nobler purnoses in life, and my hope is not that these scholarships will make bet- ter butchers, bakers, brokers and bank cashiers, but that they will help to make teachers, scholavs, physiciaus, authors, journalists, judges, lawyers and statesmen. I shall be happy in- deed if it should even in the smallest degree relieve poverty, aid the cause of education and lift into a higher plane seuship ‘and usefulness to the state children of the poor, who, in spite of talent, without such education and great hardship cannot compete for 5 of an intellectual ca- reer,” Mvr. Pulitzer’s generosity gives him a prominent position among the public benelagtors of the country. It is broad, comprehensiye and liberal, and confined to a ‘ciass where its benefits will be sought and appreciated. The gift is the impule of a noble heart, a credit to the founder and to the profes- sion he so richly adorns. A NUMBEROf interesting government centenaries have recently passed, attracting but little attention. Sep- tember 26, 1769, the department of state was organized by the appoiniment of Thomas Jefforson, its first secretary, who held the office a trifle over four years, being succecded durlng Wash- ington’s second term by Edmund Ran- dolph, Atthe time of Jefferson’s ap- pointment Samuel Osgood, of Massa~ chusetts, was made first secretary of the postoffice departinent, while Raudolph, of Virginia, who was afterwards transferred to the state department, was crested aWlorney geu- oral. Al nder Hamilton, the first secrotary of the treasufy, was appointed September 11, 1789, September 12, 1789, General Henry Knox was con- firmed s seoretary of war. Theso five officers constituted the first cabinet, The navy department was not organized until 1798, during Adam’s administra- tion. Tho 26tk of Septomber was still further distinguished by the confirma- tion of John Jay, of New York, as tho first chiof justice of the supreme court of the United States. Thus it will be seen that the 26th of Septembor, 1889, deserves an honorable position in the dates of important events 1u the history of this count AN effort isto bo mado in the German parlinment, which will meet next month, to sacure the repeal of the pork and beef duties which amount to a proscription of these Amorican pro- ducets It is understood that Ministor Phelps hus been instructed to ask the German government to remove or modify the duties on American pork products, and there is reason to expect that his appeal will find support from a largo body of the German people, who in consequence of the cxclusion of thuese products t less meat than formerly and pay more for whatthey do The effort in this direction will, howover, be vigorously opposed by the agricultural interest, and as Bismarck has always assiduously cultivated the favor of this intorest, its wish will probably prevail. But the government is certain to hear a sironger demand than ever before for the removal of re- strictions which deprive tens of thou- sands of people of a regular supply of a most essential part of subsistence and enhunce the cost of meats to the whole population. THE recent organization of cotton manufacturing compantes in Texas ovidences the gradual movement of factories toward the gource of supoly of raw material. As competition grows keener in the various departments of wdustry, many of the factories of the east will bo forced west orsouth or go out of existence. Buffalo was at one time the stock market of the countr From there it moved to Cincinnati, then to Chicago, and is now gradually shifting to the Missouri valley, becauso it is nearer tho source of supply. Tho mountains of iron and coal in the south are attracting factories ona large scale. So it will be with tho manuafacture of cotton. The success of one factory near the source of supply will soon force those distant to move or be crowded out of the market. It is proof that the grip of the easton the great inaustries of the counry is gradually loosening. HITS AND MISSES. ‘The cofilu shop still holds out for coroner. Mr. Gurloy is made chairman of the county committee. Mr. Gurloy is a noo-do. The county t sury nas been burglarized again. This time 1t was pried open by Inter- state Vaughn, The Chicago police have discovered that Tascott wasacat’s paw. This explains their purr luck in runnog him down and captur- ing the reward, ‘There was 4 time wiien the democrats were the only Bourbons. Judging by the conven- tion it looks as if the republicans of Douglas county have forgotten everything, Holzhay, the Wisconsin terror, is cultivat- mg a lavge crop of lead by defying the authorities. He evidently intends t6 make his taking off as sudden and dramatic as vossible. Mormon elders have suddenly discovered that the climate of Tennessec does not agrea with them. A mob of masked men armed with hemp has a distressing effect on tho health of polygamous preachers, Every roustabout and yeliow dog candi- date who has ever been repudiated and suowed under by the republicans of Omuha will be at. Hastings as a ‘“‘representative ro- publican” for tae metropolis of Nebraska. ‘The industrious fircbug challenges death when he carries his torch into Helena, The few melancholy pies which dot the suburbs of that section huve bsen the means of cle- vating his tribe in the past, and their strength insures long years of usefulness as 4 means of involuntary suicide. n Cyclone. Chicagn News. About the only candidate elocted in the new stutes that is not a republican is Pierre in South Dakota, the new capital, - Such is Lit'r 1y Fams, Meschant Traveler. The city editor is u mar of indefinite fin- auciul ability., Ho can multe any number of assignments and be none the worse off. Hiash Don't “Go." Chicago Times, Wilkie Collins never kept a scrap-boolk, which probably accounts for the popularity of bis stories. Peoplo do not take kindly to hash, Dakota's R A Noble Achievement, Chicago Tribune. ‘Wo take pleasure in recording the fact that New York’s 400 are not altogether the use- loss citizens they are popularly supposed to be. Oneof them, 1t is claimed, has discoy- ered a sure cure for warts. - - Fruits of a State Lottery. New York Mail and Express. Louisiana, us a state, for many years has encouraged gumbling. There will bo man y poople who will discover in the present ex- posure of stealiog {rom the state treasury a counection that points & moral, - Reversing the Rule. Louisoille Courier-Journal, When a bavker skips out, like Mr. Leon- ardi, of New York, and leaves soven cents behind, capital appears to a disadvantuige, The rule is to take caro of the pennies aud leave the dollars to take care of thomselves, —_———— Bayard Won't by a Martyr, Kansas City Journal. Ex Seccretary Bayard has courteously ex- pressed a disaclination to be the democratic cavdidate for governor of Delawarc. The demoorats of the state may regard Mr, Bay- ard as an’ cligible sacrifice, but ho begs to aiffer. We Would Still be Undiscovred, Chicago Herald, A New York paper sayst *‘It took some years of hustling before Christophier Colum- bus could raise the money to equip his mem- orable expedition across the Atlautic.” It w8 very lucky that the discovery of America did not depend upon New York. B Fail New York World, S0 Mrs, Burnett dido't write *'Little Lora Fauntlgroy!” Stravge. Mrs, Burnett is sowething of a writer, Why is it that when othier pooplo write the stories which she ap- propriates they drop quistly into the Potter's Field of hiterature! ShHakespoare used to have some of the same sort of trouble which Mrs. Burnett is having. Ho used to extin- Ruish unknown writers also. - AS OTMERS SEE US. What Do You Say, M “Koansag City St Why doosn't Mr. Watkins challenge tho Omaha base ball clud for the champlonship of tho Missouri valloy! Everybody knows that the talk of playing & series of games with St. Louis is the rawoest sort of bluft. Omaha has the champion club of the West- ern Ioague. Kansas City proudly seventh place in the Ameries Ohis puts tho two clubs on an equal footing, and insures a hara struggle. Horo is a chance for Mr. Watkins o show that he has confidence in his team. Watkins? Libbie Beeo! s n Star, Auburn Post, Itis snid that among the “fivst appoear- ances” to greot the great pabiic the coming season is Nina Van Zandt, who married the anarchist Spies, by proxy. Probably an- othor star who will make her “sccond ap- pearance” somo day and capture the Omaha public espocially, will be Mrs. Elizabath Beechlor-King. Sooner or lator sho must continue hor carcer in the ling of tragedy begun 80 gloriously in Nevraska's metrop olis, An Eye to the Main Chance. New York Worli, Patrick Egan, United States muister to Chili, has been engaged recontly in opening tho eyos of Chilian millers to tho fact that thoy ure far behind thoir brothren in the United States in the matter of machinc eto. Next we shall hear of Pat as president of a company organizod to inteoduce Yankos milling machinery into Chili. Our ministors are nothing if not commercial. Trade keops step with the stars and stripes. Our Boys in Beanville, Boston Globe, It secms to be accepted as a fact that the Omahas of this season will be the triumvirs' club for next season. This goes to support the prevalent opinion that it will be neces- sary to go *‘a long way"” to find as good a club ns the Bostons of this year, 1t Was For Him, Chicago N An Omaba prize-fizhter was knovked out in the thirteenth round, yet seme people per- sist in saying that the number thirteen is unlucky Companions in Misery. Denver News, . The Kansas City Times very proporly sug- gests that in makmg up the route for the mombers of the grout commercial congress of American states a natoas somebody has blundered. The route includes Omaha and not Kunsas City, and the Times truthfull says that “Kansas City is toc much the rep- resentativ merican rowth to be left out of the caleulation.” There cau, however, be no true appreciation of the United States zained by theso South American reprosenta- tives that does not include a tour of Colorado and a visit to Denver, e, L COUNTRY BREEZES. Under Embarrassi Grecnivood rson and ed by Bsquire Crittend day cvenng. ‘The circumstince: rather ombarrassing, but it is hoped the mateh may prove a happy one and sailing over life's troublous sea bo prosperons and smooth. rank T were Not to be snes a At Fillmore County Republican, As we weut swingin alon ing to the depot at Lincola last Satur. man eame up abouv five paces in the rear and sneezed iis upper set of teeth out upon the walk, and as they went to roll past us they came in contact with the iron forale of our cane, and a tooth was broken off. We felt badly, but nothing to compare with the othor feller. A Postmaster's Gratitude, Sulton Advertiser, It gives us great pleasuro to mention, s a matter of news, that there has lately sprung into lifo a warm friendship between the odi- tor of this papor and Mr, John Waaamaker, of Washington, D. C. Up to this writing communicatious nave boen somewbat formal, but at this end of the line there is a warm admiration for Mr. W. that grows strongor each day, and were it not for the halo of oM- cial dignity that hedges itself about that es- teemed gentloman, our gushing gratitude woyld overleap the bounds of cold propriety and shower upon our new found friend the gratitude of a loyal and a loving heart. We cannot close this personal without mention- ing that, in our humble opinion, Colonel Wanamaker is a gentleman and a scholar, and we unbesitatingly pronounce nis cele- brated 83 pants to be the best in the market. Compliments For a Contemporary. Grand Istand Inde endent, The anchients worshipped a bull calf as the groatest of the great, and hence we 0o a0 more impropriety in falling down and worshipping the lowa wind-bag, if ono fecls so0 inclined, It is very likely quite as much agod as was the bult calf i its day, and in its own estimation much more so, Must B> a Rozzie-Dazzler, A Dot in Broken Bow Republican, A gooa, sober, inaustrious young man that oon play a good game of razzle-duzale, and willing to pay half the rent, half the conl bill, and half the expense of the room, can find comfortable quarters in the opera house block. The Foron Becom s a Farent. Norden Bovealis, Not much news this week; our printer gov to be pa. A Fraternal Aduw Aulirn Post, The devil hates a hog. Bill Sauders of the Advertisr, would be wmuch less like his porkship if he would give credit to nis olip- pings. ition. Journalist thics. York limes, Auy editor who will misrepresent a man and malign him bocause ho does nov like bim or bocause he does not take his paper, is o stinking mean to edit a pape -~ AT MIDNIGHT, Nathan Haskell Dole in New Eugland Magasine, Tell me, glowing stars on high, Do I perish when I diet O shall I be ever U1 Will my spirit have re-birth And regain the things of worth When my dust returns to earth? Ye too perish, ye too fall; Flash a moment—then the pall; Is that typical of allt Boundless depths of glowing sph eres, Changeless iu the cLangiug years, Seem 10 nogauve our fears, Yot your changoless is all change | Fleeting, lying on, ye rango Through the vortex vast and strange, Other oreatures, other men, Cling upon you, live—aud then Do they die and live againt ARMERS AND DRESSED BEEF- A Boyoott Resolution Introducad in the Lincoln Convention. DR. ROBBINS CASE. THE MQAS. An Autopsy Shows No Oause foy Her Death ~Leasing the Saline Lands—Seate Houss dote tings Uity Notes. 102 1 TaNcony At 2 o'clock this aft mooting the farmor's convention was called to order at Bohanan's hall by J, V. Wolfe. The attondanes, however, was not t it did not lack in enthusiasm or gestions, The mooted quastion, the im- portation of dressed meats, was again dis cussed at length, Prominent farmors and business men pacticipated in the discussions, Burrows, TREET, b Dot 8, »on the adjourned Lixcons Bereav or Tus Osana Bee, } chaieman of the committe on olutions, followed witly his roport. It recommendod a thorough understanding be tiveon alt parties interosted; that an oxecu- tive committee of soven membors bo ap pointed by tho chair as a ways aud means committee, with power to appoiat sub co mittees and propose means to carey out the object of the meoting; that a sub committeo of throo be appointed by the executive con mittee to wait upon all loewl dealers in the oity und request each 0ne to Sign an ngrec mont nov to handle dressod meats; that a committee of five be appointed n & like manner to cireulate an agrecment for sig tures among the business men generally pledging that if any shops handle imported meats they will not patronizo them, or in othior words ostablish & boycott. Mrs. Dr. Robbins Dead® The mystery sucroundng tha death of Mrs. Dr. Robbins continues to be the subject of conversation, espacially in the viciuity of Bightoenth and N, where sho lived and died A post mortem examination was held last night betwoen 9 aad 10 o'clock, attanded by Des. Winnett, Paine, Crem and Stoomaker. They report that all tho organs wora in un apparently healthy condition, and thoy saw no cause for her death, The stomach, livo kidneys and the neckof tho uterus wo taken away for further examisation aod ¢l i L yais, yovIns is said to have aematic convulsions. s the presence of un this is caused by diso refuse to performn As the examination bo apparently bicalthy. more myster ous thin before something of a mystery sur holdin of the autopsy. newspaper man in town day to find out when it One man was in the tho physicians wera there ceady to begin ths work, and yet he was told that it was not yet known just when it wonld take place, and it was not until about milnight that it was known thai tho autopsy had been made, This has cwsed much eomment among the people, not but what the physicians maiine tho examination are amone the best aud suocable in t . but_because th I lerstand the nacessity for this profound secrecy. diod from Phose ave produeed e in the blood, and fered kidneys, which their proper [ ctions, showed the kidneys to ounding tio baoly every rorel yoster- tako " place. sbbing house w en Dritt of volities. Notwithstanding the state and cong ional couventions are fixed for Hastings, this city s the conter around which the pole iticians of the Secoud district ewculato. The probuble result of the conventions is the chief subject of conversation. Deals and © ombinatio 4 by this one and that one thi hadow the real mitua- tion. It is pa Norval stock is for the supre bip, He is tal more here than Judeo Reese, who is the structed choice of the delegation from county, Dr. sSmith, of Rillmore ranks first for the regency from the coneressional district, and L. J. . from the third. If talk indoxes anytbing, these gentlomen wiil be ated onthe first ballot. But the congro firht i the bothersome problem. Laws will not have a solid Adams aclezation, and as con- vention after convention is neld in the ond district tho operator sitting at the end of the B. & M. wires has quit clicking the lowend, “Probably for Laws.” A number of tie~ ups are siid to have been made, but there Is ily nothing in them. The respective can- didates are banking upon their individual strength in u romarkable degres. Wobster's lightning rod 18 still in sight. Harlan is hopeful. Hastings makes pretensions, Me- Pueeley and Baker have their friends, but it is said that they are on the skiry I line to make the winning man, thus hoping to make themsclves for something olse, The Saline Lanas. Commissioner Steen pat the Saline of the state on the market to-day at 10 o'clock. There was a rush for them, too, in fact, a surprise party for the dapartneat of the comm issioners of public lands and build- ings. It appears that the low appraisement put upon them by the commissioners of Lan- cas ter county acied as an impetus for lLively bidding. Thore was 1o lack of farmers who wanted to huve the lands. Indeed, bankors, capitalists and business men generally sought the right to cantrol them for stipi- lated vime, the wisdom of the late lozisla- turo 1n providinz tnat a cash brnus uprn tho appraised valuation would sccure coveted leases became apparent before the firat quar- ter fell under the hummer. One quartor sac- tion was loased for 1,600 above 1ts appraise- mont. A numoer of other quarters w corresponding tigures, and but fe: the vaiues placed by the aporan money raised by this salc fuud—-the Saline Land fund—and a8 8500 a3 a sudicient amount accumulates in tho Lrais- urer's hands the same shall be invested in registered school district or municipal bonds and hold as a permanent Saline fund says the statutes of 1839, in- this county. lands st H.ou SOLLINE . Govornor Thayer returned homo last night, and put in to-day ridding his desk of accumus lated correspondence, Auditor Benton registered $23,000 Geneva water works bonds to-day. sgnature is in depe ntures. Colonel Horn, of Syracuso, was at the stato houso to-day. Ho came up to assure himself that thero wore no missing lnks in the school house bonds rocently voted by by Otoe's second city, Syracuse is propav- 1 to build 4 £10,000 school hous Articles incorporating tho 1, ing and Wator Powoer company were filed to- day. Bayard, Cheyenne ciunty, is fixed upon s tue principal place for the trausscs tion of busi nital stock, $15.00). Iu= corporators wton Matthows, Fdward Smith, u I Stones and 1. M. Stoarus. Governor Iyer to-day recsived a letter from A. Singer, secretary of the National Silver ussociation, requesting him to appo:nt wwenty delegates and twenty ualternates to attend tho national convention which cons venes in St. Lows, Novembor 25, Tae goy- ernor states that Lie will gladly appoit any prominent gontlomen of the state who are u favor of the contined coinage of silver ot His demand for this class of vard Terigat- “riends of Hon, I, . Browk announce to- iy that be will bo & candidato for coveruor, subject Lo the decision of the republican staté couvention of 1890, This insures a lively sorap botween him and Senator Raymond for the Laucaster county dolegation n ye e in advance. Twelve caudidates for goyernor are already 1o the floid. City News ant M. E. O'Brien, saverintendent of the state fisheries at Northg) Hend, is in the city, 5 reshmen wero 1o much for tae sophs in the “cane scrap' that took place on the univers iLy campus this worning. A large crowd wilnessed the fun, Mayor Graham considered Oficer Pound's cise Lo-day, but he uus not yet passed upon tho Justuess of his wus ewaion, It s #aid that he will look after Carder next wook, wod it is probable that ke will pass Upon both Cusos ul Lo sawo time. tos. \

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