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

— B as SEEREES b sl R 4 THE DAILY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, Bditc =, $ f’ BLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Datly and Sunday, One Yeur Six Months Three Months, Bunday Iice, One Year ... Weekly fee, One Vear with Premium OFFICE Omana, Bes Building, ] Rookery Butlding 15 Tribune Build- 200 ing : Washington, No. 513 Fourteenth Street. Ca ufls, No. 12 Pearl Street. Lincoln, 1029 P St CORRES All communieations relating to news and edl. torial matter should be addressed to the Editor. 1] Department, BUSINESS LETTERS. AN VYusiness letters and remittances shonld He addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Oinnha, Dratis, chacks and postoffice oraers £ made payable te the r of the company, The Bee Puvlishing Company, Proprietors e Dullding Farnam and Seventrenth Strects. e e THE DAILY BEE, Sworn Statement of Cicculation Etate of Nebraska, T4 County of Douglas, (%% George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bes Publishing Company, does solemuly swear that the actunl circulation of Tre DAILY Bee for the weex ending October 12 1830, was as fol- 21,30 12 14027 18615 18,601 18004 18625 Thuraday, Oct. 10 Friduy, Oct, 11 Baturdiy, Obt, 120 et Average...... ......19.005 . TZSCHUCK. Etate of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, ¢ 5% £3 0111 10 hefors me and suvscribed to in my prescice this 12(h day of October, A. D. 183, (¥eal. | ORGE N, [TIUKS, Notary Publis George . Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- JOiciant rays that he ia secrotary of The lioo ublishing company, that the actunl average anily circilation of ‘Tug DALy Bee for the month of October IS8, Was 18,084 coples: for November, 188, 186 copies: for December, 1884, 1823 coples; for Jan- uaty, 160, 18 : for February, I8, 8006 copiés: for Mavch, 1889, 14554 copies: for T80, IRA60 copiess for May, 180, 18,00 or June, 16, 18,58, coplés: for Jul. 8T8 copies for Aligust, 1880, 18,851 coples for ‘September, 18, 18,710 coples, Gro. I Tzscnuck, Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 4th duy of Octoler, A. D, 185, {SEAL] N.P. Frin, Notary Publie. TiiE popular reception accorded the czav in Berlin probably reminded his majesty of niid-winter weather in St. Petershu Tite cighty miies of cable. electrie motor and. horse cur lines in Omaha challenge compavison with any city of double its population in the countr, T ten st will pour between nine and miliion dollars in dividends into the capacions ‘pockets of Boston this month. Though tho Hub lost the pennant, she certainly takes the pot. ghtful death of a lineman in New York should spur the authoritics of every city to drive the man kiliing wires under ground. Human life is too precious to be sacrificed for material progress. THE summary manner in Toglish courts have of the directors of the late Comptoir d° compte would indicate that banik wreck- ing is not so profitable there as on this side of the Atlanti even which the disposed THE statement Wiman some that the United States manufacture su plics for a hundred million people while we only have sixty million of hom sumers, affords serious food for tion. made by Lrastus fime can sin con- reflee- DESPITE the warm embraces and joy- ful weeping of Alexander and William, there is no relaxation of war prepara- tions, Germany signalized the czav's visit to Berlin by a demand upon the im- perial pavilament fora fow more millions for death dealing machines and forts. Bismarck is bound to preserve peace 1f Bmperor William has to fight for it. JUDGE GROFEF’s decision in the Barr case displays a keen sense of the natural order of things, He holds that a man and wife cannot maintain separate re- lations at the same time and in the same house for the purpose of perfecting ad- joiuing homestead cntries. In union there is str i, but not suflicient to deceive Sam's knowledge of dowestic AFTER o proionged controversy it has been decided in Chicago that women are cligiblo police officers. The duties of the police women will be the inspection of factories and tenement houses, It is questionable whether women are qualified to do volice duty in even such a capacity, and the exper- iment bogun last week by the appoint- ment of two women on the Chicago polico force will be watched with in- terest. us 1 supply of natural gas at and near Pittsburg seems to have been exhaus- ted. There has been mo supply for nearly one week and the indications are vhat the flow will not be resumed. This will not merely be n great blow to Pittsburg, but the failure of the natural gagsupply at any manufacturing center crentos apprehension of decline in other localities and destroys confidence essential for inducing capital toembark in industrial enterprises. Tne London Zimes professes to be- lieve that the Inter-American congress will not accomplish a great deal for any of the countries concerned in it, espe- cinlly the United States. The paper says: “If the delogates go home pleused with their hosts, impressed by the mag- nitude of the country and anxious to re- visit it in 1802 when the world’s fair will be held in New York, the American congress will have done as much as can rensonably be expected,” The results of the congress as mapped out by the Zimes are all very well, and this country should, and doubtless will, feel deeply grateful to England for the admission of benefits it is pleased to allow us, but we have inherited one trait frem the mother country which has always per- vaded the English breast, and that is to do the best we can with the opportuni- ties afforded. Our leading men can forsce far greater results than the Thunderer will adwit. Manifestly most of the reciprocal trade between this country and South America will curtail the commerce of Great Britain, Such a project very naturally can not gratify the London Zimes. i DETRACTORS OF OMAHA. Whenever anybody from the interior of Nebraska rvegisters at a New York, Chicago or Philddelphia hotel nine times out of ten his name will appear on the register as hailing from Omaha. ‘T'hig is done very much for the same reason that Americans traveling abroad prefer toregister themselves as citizens of New York. A man registering from Omaha is no more in need of adding “Nebraska’ than a man from New York needs to pdd “U. S, A" In marked contrast with this ac- knowledged pride in the metropolis of their own state, many Nebraskans and notably the papers published in the interior towns and cities of Nebraska tuke special pains to disparage Oma at every turn. And these malignant thrusts are often applauded by thought- less people who imagine that they can build up their own towns by belittling or migrepresenting Omaha. Ifa blather- skite who knows nothing about Omaha declares that this is the wickedest city on the continent the sentiment isap- pliuded to the echo and sent broadeast as gospel truth, As amatter of fact there is not n city in Amevica of equal population better policed, more orderly and less immoral than this city is to-day. Comparatively spenking there is no city in the union of equal size having a smaller propor- tion of popular wrger proportion of school attendunee; and no city in Amerien of equal population patronizes public libravies as Omahn does, and contributes more Liberally to- ward ehavitable and benevolent institu- tions. But the detractors of Omaha are not content merely with stabs about Oma- hu's alleged lawlessness and immovrality. Whenever Omaha suffers any damage by cut throateompetition of other cities, Aiseriminating railvoad rates, or com- binations of capital at other trade cen- tors, the dotractors of Omaha exhibit their and the smull-souled editors of certain towns and would-be ecities join in the chorus, Aud the key-note for these tirndes against Omaha’ is always struck by the Lincoln papers. Now why shouldanyhody in Nebraska want to build up Kansas City, St Joseph, Chicago or Sioux City to the detriment of Omaha? Why should any Nebraskan seek to divert to vival towns out of this state the trade that should by rights come to Omaha? What would Nebraska be without Omaha? With one-ninth of her population Omaha pays one-seventh of the cntive state tax. Of the six millions which the two last leg tures have appropriated for publie buildings, ¢ institutions and expenses inci- dental to statchood, Omaha has paid cight hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars. Inthe last fifteen years Omaha has ia money into the state treasury than would build the state honse and all the public buildings at Lincoln. Beatrice, Kearney, Novfolk and Grand islend put together. This may be very startiing, but it is a fact. Omati to-day is larger than the four largest citics of Towa combined, and Town has over two miliions of popula- tion, while Nebraska has less than one million, two hundred thousand. Omah: has a larger vopulation than the fiv st citios in Kansas combined, and Kansas has w population of nearly two million Wh, uy Nebraskan dispurage tihe metropolis of his own state of whose marvelous and substantial growth he s just reasons to feel proud. WHEREIN WE ARE GREAT Edwin Arnold, the distinguished elish poet and editor, now visiting 1 this country, is one of those liberal, broud-minded and thoroughly friendl Inglishmen whose opinionsand sugges- tions all inteiligent Americans will re spect. Without in the least degree dis- paraging his own country, without sur- rendering any measure of his devotion to the land in which he is dly honored as an erudite scholar, a wise and honest journalist, and a briiliant {ml.)h' Arnold can do full justice oall t is meritorious and commend- able in the character and achiovements of the American people, while not omitting to point out and criticize those fuults and blemishes which arve perhaps univoidable inacomparativel, and rapidly advancing countr but which none the less nced attention directed to them in ovder that they may be corrected. Mr. Arnold is entitled to the respect and honor of all patriotic Americans for the reason that he was the earnest friend of the union at the time when it greatly needed the courageous friend- ship of such men abroad. In the years of conflict and peril no mun in England stood forth more bravely than Bdwin Arnold in defense of the causo of the American union. Shoulder to shoulder with John Bright and a few others, he fought the overwhelming sentiment of England hostile to this government, rendering a service tothe American people which could not well be overesti- wmated, The opinions and suggestions of such a friend, with his wealth of wisdom and exverience, is surely entitled to our most respectful consideration. Mr, Arnold has said many gratifying and encouraging things of the United States and its people since he b , been among us,and when he shall have made a tour of the west and witnessed its superior energy and enterprise he will undoubi- edly have much move to say favorable 10 us. ign orance or a gleo move shonid deser new In a recent article, after specifying a few things, easily improved, in which we are deficient, Mr. Arnold referred to. our colleges, libraries, museums and observatories as leaving positively no excuse to American youth. “They must henceforth create,” he said, **and not import poets, authors, artists, scul p- tors, scientiflc geniuses and astrono- mers,” and he concluded with the dec- laration: *You really owe us, with all your glorious chances, a galuxy of great names.” [n her educational institu- tions the United States is great. She may have no one ecollege or university equal to the foremost institutions of learning in England, but in the multitude of her educational facilities, available to the whole people, this country is not behind any } positia + American people to submit ideuas, that other. if indeed she is not in advance of every other. And there isa steady growth and Improvement from yenr to year, a constant reaching out to higher attainment and loftior achievement, an eager and zealous effort to elevato the standard and widen the scopo of educa- tion. Very truly was it said, then, by Mr. Arnold, that with all this ample provision for culture there is positively no excuse to American youth. The means to intelligence in this country are broadcast and the way to a liberal education is open to all. As to supplying the galaxy of great names in learning and litorature there need be no anxiety. That we shall do in time. We have conquered the world in invention, and v forging to tho lead in most prac- respects, When we shall have more nearly accomplished the great work of material progress we have in hand, and have nation of two or three hundred millions of the most enlight- ened and prosperous people on the carth, we shall not be wanting in great names of the class to which Mr.: Arnold referreds We shall have poets, authors, artists, sculptors and scientific geniuse whose rank in the world will be as prom- inent and potential as will be the mate- vial and political influence of the re- public among the nations of the earth. world with a AN ORIGINAL IDEA WANTED. The Eiffel tower is an orlginal and imposing feature of the Paris exposi- tion. 1t is perhaps its greatest attra tion, giving characterand individuality to the exposition. It has given worid- wide fame to its designer, and long after most other features of the great show have passed from the memory of the millions who have visited it the great tower will be a distinet recollec- tion. As sentiment rules the world, it is felt to be of very great importance that the proposed World’s fair of 1892, to commemorate the discov- v of America by Columbus, shall have some distinct and original attraction— some great feature that will illustrate the or of American genius and which all people will want fo see. Upon this iden the New York Suna short time ago invited suggestions, and it is an evidence of the widespread in- terest that is taken in the proposed ex: and of the readiness of the that paper 1 received such a volume of sugeestions that it has been compelled, as it states, to exercise quite freely the cditorial prerogative lection and condensation, of se- Some of these projects, of have no originality whatever, ave extravagant or wildly impractical, but not a few are ingenius and interest- ing. For example, one suggestion that the main building of the exposition be constructed in the statue of Columbus, of proportions, say two or three hun- dred feet high, of iron and colored glass, the figure to be modelled after the style of dress of the fiftcenth cen- tury. Another sugge an immense cluster of electrie lights equaling in aumber the American states, to be held in place oune or two mile the location of the loous. Auotuer suggests an 1mitation of the tower of Babel, and there are suggestions of endless road, of acrial trawns, of a great pyramid, of w iant casti of a bell. and others in aviety, altogether making a ve- mavkable and very interesting fund of valuable suggestion But a really great original idea is still wanting. There is certainly an opportunity for some one to make fame and perhaps fortune. The ficld is open to everybody on equal terms. There is incentive and inspiration in the object sought. course, form of a gigantic high above aiv by captive bal- an ELECTRICAL PROGRESS. Ameri sss and development in meeh admits of no compe- titor. In thatline asin all others, en- ergy und ingenuity have placed us in advance of all other nations. The creative geniusof the peovle is never at rest. 1t is constantly devising new and simpler forms of old methods,orbringing out oviginal designs and appliances lighten labor and contribute to the sum total of human comfort. This davelop- ment is particularly promivent in the domain of electricity, but we ¢ measure our advanee in that department without a comparison with the progress of Furope. Mr. Thomas A. Edison, who has made an extended tour of the old world, draws an unfavorable picture of electri- cal progress there, France and Ger- many ave on a par with this country in electric lighting, while Englana is progressing backward in this respect. The clectric lighting plants of Pavi and Berlin are unsurpussed. A system technically called “general consump- tion” is used, and all wires are under ground, thus obviating the dangers of contact. In London electric lighting is confined to a few select points. This is largely due to the ob- structive laws of the country, and tho fact that the original investors sunk money by adopting wrong theo- ries at the outset, Electric motors are coming into general use in ( many, and enormous sums are being invested in electric plants. I'rance does not advance us rapidly as Germany, but the marvelous applications of that potent power as shown at the Paris ex- position will accelerate 1ts adoption in all departments, “The Europeans,” says Mr. Edison, “*have not yet adopted electric meters as we have. They have, on the other hand, one thing that we have not, but which we must have— @ more economical system for consum- ing coal, With this cheaper system of making electric light, which is sure to come, I predict that within five years it will be cheaper by far than gas,” The question of fuel is the one great barrier to the general adoption of elec- tric light in this country. It is especs ially true of towns and cities distant from the mines, and if an Edison or a Brush succeed in increasing the heat- producing power of fuel, they will not only solve the light question, but vastly enhance the industrial progress of the country. Mr. Edison’s observations confirm the fact that in the application of elee- TRy (O THE OMAHA DAILY BEE SUNDAY, tricity toall Jopartments of activity we tead the world, Asa light and motive power its prodent successand quite gen- eral use, with the improvements which oxperionce, will surgest, insure its universal gdoption. It is destined to work a revolution in all lines of in- dustr A SCIENTIFIC expedition of more than ordinary importance sailed from New York yestébidy. Ttsdestination is west Africa, and fts object to observe the eclipse of tHe'kun, which will occur De- cember 22. ' The party is composed of a number of well known scientists repre- senting Columbia, Princeton, Amherst and Bowdoin colleges, with Prof. 'f'odd, of Amherst, at the head, and 1t is equipped with the best astronomical and photographic instruments. The last congress appropriated five thousand dollars for the expenses of observing the eclipse, but since then the intended scope of the expedi- tion has been much enlarged, and some of the scientists are making the trip for thie purpose of studying marine biology, the trade winds of the ocean, gra tion of the earth at diffevent points, the depth of the ocean, anthropology, and tho flora and fauna of Africa. The un- scientific will hardiy appreciate the wisdom of so long & journey to a most inhospitable region of the world to wit- ness an eclipse which will last only four minutes, and all the observations of which will last not longer than three hours, but to the scien- tific investigator the event is regarded as of surpassing importance, and all such will await the reports of this ex pedition, and of others which will ob- serva the eclipse from other points where it will be visible, with the pro- foundest interest. The destination of the expedition which sailed from New York 1s a portion of Africa abounding with dangers, aud it is more than prob- able that some of the party will make a dear sacritice for the information ob- tained. THrREE willion acres of Indian land, calued at fifty million doliars, will be added to the public domain in Minne- sota this year. The ceded land includes a large area of pine forests. Themoney derived from the sale will be placed to the credit of the Indians,in the na- tional treasury, at five per cent inter- est. A large proportion of it will be devoted to schools and to aid and en- courage agricultural pursuits. The re- mainder of the veservation will be di- ided on the severalty plan, thus fore- ing the Indiansinto useful and bene cial lines of industry. THIRTY-FIVE ars ago James G. Bluine, secretary of state, and Melville W. Fuller, chiof justice of the United States, were both reporters on papers at Augusta, Me. The prominent position taken by both gentlemen indi- cates that a newspaper office is a splen- did training school for brainy men. BEE FLATS. Mr. Coburn will works. The Nebraskan, in daisy; as a Inight Te: tall outside the breast- every day life, isa plar he's a golden ce of Mike Maul is heard ail over this city warbling *'['ve a Casket at Home.” The Douglas county grand jury Chicago Cronin jury ought to quainted withi each other, Time and decay threaten to do what the Union Puacific should have done many years ago—remove the depot cowsbied. The Nebraska thieves who carried off a 1,300-pound trip hammer have secured steady ewployment nailing campaign lies. A religious exchange says “the idea of a pan-Cougrogational couucil has been re- vived.” What won't thieso church sociable people think of? 1f consumers of city water find the liquid rather turbid for the next few days they will please remember that the great unwashed have just held their convention, General Vanderbufn is holding a surprise in store for us. He has picked outa judge all unto himself, who will deal out justice ac- cording to the standard of the roustabouts. The veiled profits revealed by the Union Pacific to the senatorial prying committee did not equal the St. Louis article in tinsel trappings, but they were gilt edged and gold lined. One of the fashionavle colors for the com- ing season, nccording to an eastern paper, 18 called “calf’s liver.” A very pretty com- plement, if such a shade were possible, would be *dude’s brain,” During the past thousand years 1000 ed- ors of the Pekin Gazette have boen be- headed. Pekin would be a good field for Colonel Vaughu and the juvenile editor of the hyphenated to emigrate to, Ex-Secretary Bayard will be married to Miss Mary Willing Clymer next month. There is no special significance in the lady's middle name, he is o relative of the late Helster Ciymer, of Pennsylvania, The rumor that the Daily Democrat will soon consolidate with the Svenska Posten is mot well founded. “Colonel” Jacobsen says that such & move would ruin his polit- ical chances and disgrace him socially. A mob at Waycross, Ga., lyncheda colored man because he threw & stoue at a citizen with whom he was quarrclling and hit a by- stander, No wonder the brave Georgians talk so much about. threatened “negro upris- ings. Vandervoort went to Hastings with a pass covering seventy chialk-marked patriots—no names were necessary. H. M. Waving hove to with a pass coverlng thirty-nine persons not named on the pass, Other couuties not yeu heard from. In St. Lous Jay Gould told the reporters that he was in favor of that city for the world's fair, In Opaba he declared to the young men that he hayl given the matter uno thought, In one sewse of the word at least Mr. Gould 15 no Juy. A carpet trust is yeported from the east. If the operations of this benevolent organiza- tion can be extended 80as to include other articles of furniture 1t will fill along felt want in the pocketbook of the average house- holder at this season of the year, and the become ac- It is said that the papers in regard to the site for Omala's postofice building have reached Washington, but by the time they have the requisite amount of red tape attacned to them it will be generally realized that this isn't. building the postofiice by a — good, big sight. The balance of trade is largely in our favor, The Huutington millions und neiress will remain at howe for the wigter socisl season at least. lmpecunious princes with titles for sale are convinced that marriage without American bullion is a faliure. The county commissionershivs of Chicago S A IO €0 4 A NN RPN IS A SV A ot B 0 OCTOBER 13, 1880-SIXTEEN PAGES. rojocted a bill for beor furnished the inmates of & lunatio asylum for the roason that they did not participate in the bath. This is sound and lofty reasoning. While sano men thirst for the amber fluid at public oxpense, it is an owtrage to saturate lunacy with do- lirium tromens, Any attempt to raze the railroad cowshed will bo vigorously resented. It miust be pr served as a monument to broken pledges and misspent municipal treasure, The county commissiouers must bo given crodit for utilizing the services of the Af- rican in the cordwood. As a trader of #oo ond-hand buggios and othor rare bargains hio proved a convenient medium of exchange bo- tween the members individually and the commissionors officially. A Detroit miss domauds $5,000 damages for the painful improssions of a kiss im- printed on the vestibulo of her pie trap. It is a civil action, yot a court in the same city fixed the price of a violent kiss at $10. it tho girls persist in maintaining these exhor- bitant rates and grados they will forco mon into bankruptey or marriage. ‘The jail is the ouly medium ot escape. The failure of Gabricl to toot his trumpet at the behest of the Adventists has thrown the Jersoy branch of the sect into great dis- tress, Midnight of October 7 was the timo set for the asconsion, but the frenzicd fol- lowers of Bill Miller shivered in their spot- loss robes for the signal that never came. 1f they will mingie patience with perseverance they will gt there in time, The literary genius who edits the Omaha Double-Heador has just discovered that Bel- ford, Clarke & Co., have failed, and in the red heat of excitement he has wriiten a halt column leader upon the failure of this book concern, The readersof the Double-Header will probably remember that the failure of Beltord, Clarke & Co., ocourred about two weceks ago, A local contemporary recent]y discussed “‘Woman as a dystery.” The writor ovi- aently did not grasp the subject in the rizht mood, or was too modest to solve the ques- tion with his strong right arm. The fact is there is nothing mysterious about a woman when you get thoroughly acquawmted with Ler, except an irvesistable weaknoss to hide her gum in the carved recesses of the bed- stead. - - Frost Bitten R Chicago News, The market for tips on the races has ruled strong for some months, but the outlook for the future is rather dreary gt The Town Was Theirs. Washington Post. Sir Knights, you are Free and Accepted Masons—Ieee to paint the town, and Ac- cepted as bail for each other. —_——— Open and Above Board. St. Louis Post-Dis patch, Connecticut will not cut down her orchards, nov will she have to hide behind the barn when she wants a drink of cider. The Grip of the Oil Uctopus. Piltshurg Dispatch, Most of the trusts ave weakening; but the Standard oil monopoly tightens its grip and vromises to stay with us till the crack of doom. About a & Chicago Herald, St. Touis is hopeful that Jay Gould will contribute to her fair fund. It is not unlikely ¢ will iy to St. Louis as to Now Y —— - A Jolly Rum O1d Party. Troy Times, A pavier mache ticket on a free ram plat- form—that s the pictars of the democratic party in the state of New York as drawn by its own hand, Bellicose Major Jones, Fort Worth G : There is one thing the St, Louis Republio would do well to remember when it comes to Texas. The democrats down this way be- evo the war is over—they fought in i -~ Make Way for Mills. Chicago Tritnne, Room is requested for the Hon. Roger Q. Mills of Texas. Make way, there, gentle- e, if you please, for Mr. Mills. The Hon, Mr. Mills is the person that is’ kindly going to take the job of runming this country en- tirely upon himself as s00n as congress as- sembles. I LR Boulanger's Latest Ma: Toston. Globe, cat heavens! It is announced that Bou- anger will now call on the army to follow bim and descend upon Puris like Algric of old. Since the famous capture of New Jer- sey by the Fenians nothing so startling as this has fallen upon peaceful nerves, ———— mployes' Passes." Kearney Enterprise. St. Peter (to applicant at the gate) on I'say. You ean't come in here. Applicant—Can’t, eh? Well, T guess I can. I'm o delegate of the Nebraska stato republi- can convention Peter (humbly) ~Walk in, my friend, walk 15 why didn't you say you had a p; in the first place ! ifesto, All Hold - William Waldorf's Enth Chicago News, Mr. W. W. Astor of New York, is reported to have said at a dinner party given by him- self to a carefully selected crowd of gentle- men that, if necessary, he would pay for a £20,000,000 world’s fair in that city all by himself rather than see it o elsewhere. After a judicious application of crushed ice to kis forehead Mr. Astor probably has no recollection of wmaking such a statement, even if be ever actually made it, The Only Certain Road to Vicrory, Thitadelphia Teleyraph, Tne best possible chauces of republican success will lie i the mzking of an adminis- tisfactory to the country, If that is done there need be no fears of the democ- couling into powor again in 1802; and if it 18 not done it will come into power, The republicans now have & fair majority in both branches of congress; they have the exec tive oftice, aud can do what they like. E'rom now until November of 1592 they will be sub- ject to the criticism and attacks of the oppo- sition, and every mistake they make will be known, proclauned and mogoified. They cannot, therefore, 4o too mwuch for the coun- try's welfare, nor commit too fow blunders, if they would keep control of the govern- ment. It wiil depend much more upon them- selves than upon the democrats whether they win or lose in 1502, Standing in the ®ain, Binghamton B coublican He stood upon the corner of the busicst stroet 1 town, Supporting an nmbrella while the rain was coming down, And now and then his wicked glance went up and down the street, Tosee if he could catch u ghmpse of some young woman's feet, Just then & maiden passed that way with slightly lifted skirt, To keep her dress from dragging and the dirt “May Lioan you my umbreila while I'm walk- ing by your sidet May I ask you where your maiden quick replied 0, thank vou, sir; Um dude with'brains, Or a loafer who has sense enough to go in when it rains: Aud 1 huve looked on oevery side, from Car roll strect to Main, And every loafer I have seen is standing iv the rain.” siasm, the water going " The looking to find a STATE CONVENTION ECHOES, The Wahoo Wasp deeply rogrets the de- foat of Judgo Reese, and says that while Judge Norval may be just as good a man, “tho fact that ho was backed by the com- bined railroad interests of the state should bo sufficient to lead every thinking man to pondor well the gist of public affairs. No man in the convention had aught to say against oithor the character, or the public or official aots of Judge Reese, and yet it was apparont that a combination of railroad lob- byists had control of the'convention from the vory start. Judge Norval stands high as a jurist, but no man stood bigher in the minds of the pooplo of Nebraska than did Judge Reese, and his _retirement will be deeply re- grotted thronghout the state.” The York Times sveaks of the late stato gathiering as a “'hoodoo” convention, and one of the wildest and wooliest ever held in the state. It was “a legitimato sequence to the corrupting and disgraceful means resorted 10 by the railroad crowd. Judge Norval is a %ood man, an eficient lawyer anda just judge. While wo rojoice with him and bis frionds at his good fortune, wo can but de- plore and denounce the means which were resorted to by his principal supporters.’ Tho Norfolk News, while it belioves tho convention blundered in not renominating Judge Rteese, is also of the opinion that ‘it was Judge Norval's misfortune rather than principles that drew the railroad support to him. Many delogates who voted for him wore as strongly anti-railroad as were the supporters of Judge Reese, Ho being the strongest candidate in the field, the rail- roads supported him out of a supreme desire to defeat Reese. Tho nominution may not Do relished, but all straight republicans will vote for Judge Norval.” The Hastines Nebraskan,after soverely ar- raigning the *“fanatical anti-railrond faction in Nebraska politics,” romarks: *It may be true, ang perbaps is, that the influence of the railroads was exerted to secure the nomina- tion of Judge Norval, but it by no means fol- lows that the judge upon the bench will be governed in his administration of justice by impuro motives. The system of elect judges is worse than a farce if favors can be meted out by the courts in return for friendly aid at the polls.” . The Grand Tsland Tndependent hias reached the conclusion that the whole convention system is rotten and “always gives the vic- tory to the corporations over the peoples’ in- terests, Reese,” says the Independent, was hated by the railroad companies on ac- count of his honest independence, and they Qid all in their power to beat him. Their orignal and most preforred candidate would huve been a man iike the present secrotary of state, L.aws, but such a ono was not to be had, so they contented themselves with Judize Norval. That ho was the railroads’ candidate ngainst Reese is proven by the character of the men who worked for Nor- val. They were all railroad employes or other servants of these corporations.’” The Beatrice Express of course fails to <0 notice 6f the railroad influence which dominated the state convention, but lays the cliief blame for Judge Reese's defeat to “the active interest in his behalf taken by At- torney General Leese. It had the effect of concentrating against him every interest hos- tile to the latter, and 1t was a load heavier than he could earry. Judge Reeso had good reason to pray that he might bo saved from his friends. e has fallen a sacrifice to their unpopularity.” According to the Kearney enterprise the “‘state campaign in Nebraska this fall w uot be an insnirng speetacle. Tho mas of the party belicved In the bonesty capacity of Judge Reese. They oxpected to see him re-clected without trouble. Judge Norval's nomination smicks too strongly of railrond influences to command the hearty support of bis party.’ The Kearncy Hub says it *hoped to see Judge Reese renominated. That e was de- feated by the railroad influence avpears to be certain. ‘That the railroad influence was Fe-inforced by the anti-prohibition crowd is quite evident. That thoe Laws influence went to Norval to take him out of the Second dis- trict congressional race 1s something more than guess work. It looks at this distance as though tie convention had done an un- wise thing, and done it with deliberation, The outcome depends very much on the character of the candidate put up against Norval; and republicans will not forget, but remember with shame and mortification, how Loran Clark was laid out a few years ago, ana thet republican leador, C. H. Gere, was saved from the wrezk by the skin of lis tecth. Says the Schuyler Quill: *“The republican state convention was one that bore the rail- road stamp and was a disgrace to the party it represented. Tt was not only captured by the railroads of the state, but the party was attached to the railroud camp as an addition for revenue purposes onl i e B AS OTHERS SEE US. The True Silver Policy. Denver News, The suggestion of the Omaha Beo that in its silver policy the Uuited States must as sume “absoiute independence is eminently the corrcet one. By restoring siiver to its full place in the coinage, the United States can forco Furope to do the same. All that 1s lacking is a disposition on the part of the national treusury officiais, A Suggestion to Mr. Lo te Courier-Journal, Mr. Van, of Nebraska City, who has been burned out fourtecn times, must be getting somewhat behind. If he has anything left, he would do well to take partof it and buy himself a fire-engine, Little St. Joseph's Boast. St. Josenh News, Omaha and Sioux City are quarreling over the question as to which is entitled to the wholesale trade of the North Platte country. A3 the wholesale houses at both these smury towns buy all their goods of St. Joseph, we are willing to let them fight, Developing the Arid Land;, Dicnver Tue OwAns Bie makes un intelligent and able plea for the development of tho arid region of the west by the proposed system of storage reservoirs, The advantages of the system to the trans-Missouri reglon are very clearly set forth, Zsthetic Nebraska, New Orleans Picayune, Nebraska is sometimes cailed ‘‘the Sun- flower State,” which makes ivappear a wild country of the Oscur Wilde sort. An tnternational Town. St. Joseph News, Tno Iuternational Funeral Director's association will bold its next convention in Omaha, As Shakespeare would remark, “How exceeding pat.” - : COUNTRY BREEZES. Gave Him the Right Luyons 8idrror, We forsook tho field without a struggle. One morning this week, bofore it was fairly light, we met au individual of the genus mephitis just at our doorstep. He raised bis cauaal appendage in a very plumolose man ner and showed that ho was ready for com bat. We recognized his musk (ular) powers and retired gracefully, and gave him th privilege to depart in " Way. ce. Stole His Cour in' O Fremonwt Flail, Somepody broke into the residence of K. thes. M. Dickson, of Saunders county, while ha was at Morse sparking the widow and stole two now suits of clothes he had purchased for tho climax. But Dickson has bought ane other suit better than tho othioers, A Queer Inscription: Schuyler Sun, Mr. LeComto told us of & queer . inscrip tion he saw in his rounds written on an emi- grant's wagon. It read: “Farewell to Kansas and Missourl. Wo bid you both adieu. We'll omigrate to heil some day, but nover back to you." st Like It uneta Brecse, This 18 @ town, and not a_hog pasture. It this local don’t have the desired effect wo have sevoral moroe just as sickening. ————— FOR THE FUTURE. Rennell Rodd in The Nationalit, Turn, turn from the cave's dark hollow ! look up to the light and see, Though thine eyes be dazed in the glor. man that is yet to be! the Timo's wings aro at pause beside him, and calm is his heart's strong beat, And tho dust of theso old dowinions is flowerful round his feot. Exult, we have won the midwi light has scared the glooin, And we smilo at the old sad scutence, we are froad from the endless doom, and the Not beirs of a forfeit Godhead, degencrato, waning away, But climbing, and all too slowly, from dark- noss into day. Thero is light in my eyes of dawning, of a fair world woary ot sloop, — I sce tho new peopling islands, dominions over the deep, Away to the ancient forest, and the wilds that are yet unwon, Where th fous growth of crecpoers goos rivalliog up to the sun: Whero the streams of the Orient land roll out through their gates of gold, When the dizziest mountain summits wero shrines of the faiths of old, Where the well of the desert waters gives life to the lonely tree, Where the tent of the turbaned nomad is set by the inland sea. From the zone of the torrid summniers to the uttermost ways of snow, From the inland-men to the island-mon, shall the greetini of good-will wo; Peace, peace on the earth forever, and we all forgotten so long, But the air that they breathe is holy because of our sighs ana song. Aud their maids shall bo pure as morniug, their youth shall be taugnt no iie, But the way shall be amootn and open fo allmen under the skys They will build thele new romances, new dreams of a world to be, Concewve u sublimer outcomwe than the end ot the world we see, And the shadow shall pass we dwell in, till under tho self-same sun The names of the myriadgnations are writ in the nume of one. e PHELPS COUNTY RI They Are in Revolt Against nd Railrond Rule. Hovourar, Neb., Oct. [Special to T Bee,|—An independent republican mass convention met at Plelps Center Wednes- day, October 9, which was the largest politi- cal convention ever held in Phelps county, Mr. J. B. Hedlund, of Bertrand, was nomi- nated as an_ independent candidate for treas- and W. B. Axtell for county superin- it of schools. Tho dissutisfaction against the repular nominecs 18 so universal that the independent candidates are almost surc of election. The committee on resolutions, consisting of . 0. Hedlund, S, M. Millard, ley, Johin Urbom and M. (. I vorted a set of rin ging resolutions that were unanimously adopted, of which the following are a part: We, the people of I’helps county, in muss convention assembled this th day of Octo- ber, the majority of us haviug been and aro members of the republican party, finding it imperatively necessary for'the preservation of our inalicnable volitical rights, do hereby repudiate the action of the late republican convention, wherein it did not represent the will of the people, and we herewith set forth the reasons which impel us to this nction: We fully recognize the importance and value of party organization, that it 18 a vowerful and efficient machine for the ac- complishment ot good ends and reforms in u republican form of government, and that o party should not ve crippled or disrunted ex cept forgood and valid reasons, but when a partv becomes a vehi cle of oppresssing the people, and falls into the hands of po litical venal and corrupt men, then it becomes mot only the right but the duty of the rig d indevendent members of su overthrow suc For u numbc PUBLICANS, Bossism s in the past the re- publican varty of ps county shows w long train of abuses and usurpations by u set of unprinciple political shysters who have fastened themselves upon the party and used their power, through shameless iu trigue, hypocrisy, 'chicaner and double deal- ing, for merceniry and scltish_purposes. Thiese politicul shysters have acted as o be. twoens and abject tools of corporations and monopolics in their wicked schemes of op- pression of the people, in every county con- vontion packing stato dnd congressionil delo- zutions with railvoad attornoys or their ser- vile Lools, That the last_republican county tion, through the secret mampulations of aforementioncd political tricksters, degraded the convention into a mere political broker shop wheroe those who could descend to the lowest depths of political duplicivy and trick- ery camo out the vietors, In the selection of delegates to the repubs lican congressional convention political in- trigue rau riot, when the friends of the cor- porations bent' their encrgies and strained every point to pack the delegation with their allies, or men who could bo used to further the schemes of the corporations, by which a candidate for congress would bo foisted upon the people who would owe his nom ination to the railroad influence and not tho people. 'herefore in order to overthrow and oust from power the ring aud cabal of political baracles who have fastened themselves upon the republican purty of Phelps cow (Tor the purpose of subSErving their sclfis onds and mding the corporations in oppress mg tho people), and Lo purify wud roform the varty we love und are members of, we have et in mass convention, and bave invited and solicit2d the co-operation of all good citizo interested in good government and u higher and purer standard of political ethics, in the selection of a county ticket that shall repre- sent the will of the people, urd such unitea uction us shall give a glorious victory to the people, and & complete overthrow of wor- porate' and monopolistic influence Resolyed, That we condemn in the se- verest terms the uctions of the men clocted as delogates Lo the last state convention who gave their proxies to men who never would have been electea by the convention, and who as proxies grossly misrepresented the republican voters of Plielps county, when at the behest of the whiskey interest and rail ad corporations they dragged the faithful, aest and unpurchasable jurist, Judge Itcese, off the supremo beuch. That we honor' aud uphold our fellow citizens, Hon, Eric_dohoson, A. G. Larson, R. Corbin, A, M. Vandell and K. Soderman for their loyalty to the people as delegatos to the republican state convention, Resolved, That the delegates elocted to the republican ' congressional convention are liereby instructed, if they wish to represent an ovorwhelming majority of the republica voters of Phelps county, Lo uso all honorablo means to defeat the nvmination of Gubert L. Luws, because by his past action as & member of the railroad comuussion we have lost all futh in his fealty to the interests of the people, and that we will hold every mem- bor respousible ia Lo future for their action in the seloction of a candidate who shall truly and lmrlt roprosent this, pre eminently an agricultural district, conven-