Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 20, 1889, Page 4

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Tzschuck, belng duly sworn, de- poses and says that he'Is secretary of The Beo Publishing Company, that the actual average dmily circulatlon of Tk DarLy Bip for the motitii of October 188%, was 18084 eoples: for Novernlcr, 1585, 1496 "copies: ' for December, I8, 18,25 copross Tor Jan 9, 14,501 cope f ruary, 1880, 15,00 coples March, 1880, 1483 conles ' for April, 1840, 18,539 copies: for May. 1844, 1% i for Jtine, 1856, 18,358 copies: 1o for Atigust, 15,051 v 1880, 18,310 3 T75CHICK. 1 subscrived In my of October, A D, 180, N. P! Feu. &8, coples; to before me nee tans Ath day 1l reserve, ns reported yestor- day, hus incroased $1,625,000, tho banks holding $017,000 in excess of legal r quirements. e Is 7i1i lown supreme court a bigger man than the federal court of last re- sort, Tite decision of the Missouri Pa to run iocal trains between Falls City and Omaha will fill o genuine long felt want. Tur local agent of Dodiin grani succeeded in muleting the city out of four .thousand dollars which might have been saved by ealling for compoti- tive bids for city hall stone. Tiene are only three days more of registration—Thursday next and Fri- day and Saturday of the following weel. Do not put off registering until the last day. Avoid the rush and make sure of your vote by registering nost Thursday. Hours from 8 a. m. to 9 p. m. Usvreis find Kansas a hard road to travel. An intermediate court has rendered a decision annulling a debt of eight thousand dollars be intorest was charged. ing decision, and if sustained by the highor court will paralyze a horde of moncy sharks and drive them from the state, ynse usurious This 1s & sweep- DURING the past week the govern- ment purchased three hundred and sixty thousand ounces of silver from the Omaha smelting works fop shipment to the United States mints. he purchase ropresents a fraction over three hundred thousand dollars, and is a pretty largo str cial current. w in Omaha’s commer- T windowglass makers have united inan advance of five per cent in the price of their product. The industry has been a standstill for some time, but the advance in price promises a general resumption of the factories, and the employment of a large number of men. For the time being the glass- makers” combine may prove a blessing in disguise to the workingmen, e e “Tix battle for public safety waged by Mayor Grant against the deadly tricwires in New York is an example worthy of imitation throughout the counts Beset by indifferent officials and hampered by legal restraints, the plucky mayor has virtually overcome the vower of the corporations and rid the city of its network of man-killevs., Ahe cncrgy and zeal displayed in this successful battle deserve unstinted praise. olec- — LAND COMMISSIO GRro¥’s deeis- fons show him to be well versed in the laws and rules us well as precedents of his oflice. The land grabbers of the Northern Pacific railvoad woke up the wrong man when they pressed him for a decision reversing that of a predeces- sor. The judge pointedly refused to certify the company’s list of sclections to the secretary of the interior, declar- ing that the Northern Pacific was not completed within the time stipulated in the grant, and inasmuch as congress may take action looking to the forfeit- ure of the grant, he does not proposa to forestall remedial legislation. The com- missioner’s ruling wilt be heartily ap- proved by settlers, Tie sugar trust attempted to masti- cate more than it could swallow and is now writhing in the agonies of suffoca- tion. No monopoly ever created better deserved its fate. For three years it has mercilessly flecced every house- keeper iu theland and forced up the piice of sugar nearly one bundred por cont, Its avarice did not stop there, Every purchaser of its cervtificates was taken in and skinned. To the people belongs the credit of bringing this un- holy combine to the brink of ruin. They patronized the independent re- flneries and thus struck the trust in a vital part. If a similar polioy is pur- sued with other combinutions, their ex- istance will be brief and profitless. DEFECTS OF THE CORONER SY The Now York Society of Medi Jurisprudence recently discussed the law of that state relating to coroners, and came to the conclusion that there is an imperative need of some chango from tho present system, which it was wsserted is at the mercy of ignoranco and personal and polttical corruption. The law of New York allows any person to be cligible to the office of coroner, and very generally, particularly in the cities, the position is filled by meon who have not the slightest legal or medical knowledge. Numerous instances were cited to tho society of the grossest ignorance on the part of 3, and the deliberations resulted n the appointment of a committee to draft a law, for submission to the next legislature, for the better regulation of the dutics of coroner. The *“‘coronor’s inquest” is a very old institution. It has existed in most Eng- lish-speaking nations, except Scotland, for the past thousand years or more, and it has not undergone any essenti modifications for centuries. But the antiquity of the system, and the ‘fact that it has undergono few changos, is not absolute proof of its merit. Why the progress of enlighten- ment has not replaced it generally with a wiser and botter system it is not nec- essary to inquire, but cortain it is that there is now o strong tendency to do away with.it and supply its place with a more sensible and eflicient method. One of tho chief faults of the coroner’s inquest is that 1t inverts the nat ral process or order of inquiry. The old-time coroner, often the vil- lage attornoy, constablo, or real estato sagent. or possibly a man of some still more incongruous oceupation, wus more commonly versed in legal than in med cal knowledge. It was his auty to take the initiative in all inguivies relative to the cuuses of death by violeuce. or suspicion of violence, and then, if neees- sary, to submit the medical question to a physician., his is quite generally still the practice, oxcent that v Iargely the coroners of to-day lack even tho smnll legal knowledge of those of an earlier time. The consequence is that the rccord of corcner’s inquests is primly humorous in its recitals of dense ignorance and amazing stupidity. The advancing modern idea is for a medico-logal iuquiry. The object of this is the detection of crime, and the points to be sought for are the immedi- ate cause of death and the pevson or per who cuused the death. ~ The first of these questions is of a purely medical character, and in many it can be answered in a satisfactory manner only by a thoroughly edu- cated medical man. Not only should he bave a medical education, but he should also spocial fitness for conducting a post mortem inquiry. The second question naturally follows the first, and the solution of*the first often leads divectly to the solution, at least in part. of the second, as, for instance, when it determines whether a man died by his own act or by the act of This iden is embodied in the law of Mussachusetts, which has been in satisfactory operation for twelve year: ‘hat law abolished the office of coroner, and provided for the appoint- ment of medical examiners, When a dead body 18 found in the district of one of these examiners ho is notified, and his duty is to view the body. If he deem it necossary to make an autopsy be may dosoon authority of the dis- trict attorney, mayor or selectmen in the two or more coronor ons cases possess another, presence of persons, and if he be of the opinion that the death was caused by vio- lence he shall notify the district attorney or other legal officer who is required to thercupon prosecute a legal investigation. This is obviously a much more intelligont, simple and in- expensive method than that of the coro- ner'’s inquest. and assures far more satisfactory results. The important requirement is that a dead body shall be first viewed and ox amined by a thoroughly educated medical man, instead of by n coroner and jury who ave totally without med- ical knowledge, and that a legal inves- tigation shall ally depend upon tho result of his inqui The system has worked most satisfactorily in Mas- shusotts, and its ecardinal principle :an be everywhere observed by elect- ing only thoroughly educated medical men to the office of coroner. Tho sub- Jject has a present local application. gene OMAHA'S COMING GUESTS. The visit to Omaha of the delegates tothe International American Congress, which will occur during the present weel, promises to be an event of special local interest uside from its general sig- nificance. Omaha has been choser as one of the few western cities which is to be hon- ored by the gojourn of the most distin- guishod party of foreigners which has ever visited this country. Sho was so selected beenuse she is known as an en- tevprising, pushing and rapidly doveloping representative western city, the entrepot for a great cultu- ral region and the manufacturing con- ter and distributing point for the min- cral lands of the far west. The visit of the Three-Americas congress to Omaha will mark the extreme western point to which the party will travel, It is of the greatest importance that our citizens should understand clearly the necessity for earnest co-operation with the various committees who are now working hard to pre- pure proper entertainment for our guests. For nearly two days Omaha will be asked to act as host to the sixty delegates from Central and South America who Lave come to this country at the nation’s invitation to discuss measures for closer commercial rela- tions with the United States, Their reception at various points will have its weight in the final outcome of their de- liberatious. Thelr journeyings and their sojourns are each made for this purpose, and it is important that the impressions made of the resources of country and cities wherever they go shall be of the best. Quite apart from the importance of creating a favorable impression upon the distinguished vepresentatives of the Three Americas, it should not be forgotten by Omaba that they are ac- | tinguished citiz PR THE OMAHA DAILY BEE companicd by & number of very dis- 15 of the United States, whose influence is vel far-reaching. Foremost among these is Andrew Car- negio, the self-made Scottish Amer- fean. who has done as much as any one man to ad- vance American industry to 1ts prosont stage and to advertise Amori- can resources abroad. lx-Senator Tan- derson of Mistouri, Mr. Clem Studeba- kor ot Indiana and Cornelius N. Bliss of Now York are also of the party, not to mention a number of brilliant nows- paper correspondents who are making observations of the evolution of the great wost, which will be read by mil- lions of poole. So far tho trip of the congress us they have swept across the United States in their magnificent special has been a sevies of ovations, ties and towns alike have vied in euthusiastio welcomes, in flags and . decorations in public demonstrations and popular en- thusiasmn, Omaha can not afford to be behind others in the warmth of the reception which sheaffords to her distinguished guests. Mayor Broateh has very prop- orly called upon our citizens for a lib- eral display of bunting. Our merchants and business men gencrally must evi- dence a liberal disposition to meot the needed expenses and nothing more will be needed but weather and a cor- dial working together of the commit- tees who have the arvangemonts in char BENEFITS OF RAPID TRANSIT. The marvelons development of Oma- ha's street railway service, the substi- tution of eable ana clectricity for horse power, and the conveunience afforded suburban residents by frequent fast trains, is cortain to bring avout a rvadi- cal change for the better in the busi- ness growth of the city. During the era of horse power, with its snail pace, inconvenient and stifling business was forced out from its natural center over a dozen thoroughfaves. Grocery and dreug stores, butcher shops nd others,crowded into vesidence distriets, to cater to the 1ocal trade which was unable to reach the business section through lack of accommodation. Many of the finest residence quarters of the city thus despoiled and costly homes injured by having stores over- shadowing theie yards. North Six- teenth and West Leavenworth streets and Park avenue furnish conspicuous samples of the species of business van- dalism fostered by an inadeguate s tem of strectscar service. Shopieepers are not consurable for this state oi af- fairs. Tho opportunities for suc sful business were too great to be ove looked, and they were porfectly jasti- fled in crowding on strects that prom- ised to be pormanently dominated by horse cars. Livery business man kuows that the nearer he is to the business heart of the the better. Iiven if rvents are the veceipts ave in proportior to general instead of loc: its are less and cush cus- ‘s corvespondingly larger. Theve he has opp: ities for enlarging his and attracting new patrons which would bo impossible at a dis- tance. Ior these reasons the cnterpris- ing and most suceessful morchants are always to be found at the center of trad; It is the law of gravitation as- serting itself in business. The effect of rapid transit on outside business is already making itself felt. Housckeepers and . shopg take advantage of the improved faci ties to do their trading down town where larger and more diversified stocks afford a varviety to select from which cannot be had ucarer home. They are attracted to the business cen- ter as naturally as the smaller towns of the state are attracted to Omaha, be- cause it is the fountain head of the state’s commerce. This change will go on until business overflows and follows the muin avenues, Buat for the time being the small and distant shopkeeper must be content with the crumbs of trade while the eream of business here- tofore enjoyed by him will be whirled away to a common center, This change will have a tendenc make the center of the city more com- pact and inviting. It will encourage wore business the demolition of the disgraccful rook- erics on leading streets and the ervection of attractive buildings. Such a consummation is devoutly to be wished. Rapid transit will put an end to the building of stores in residence districts, beeause they will not be profitable, and it will be a guarantee that the man who builds a home on u prominent street will net be afllicted with the odors of decaying vegetables or the smells of a butcher shop wafted into his parlors at all hours. Every movement which tends to cou- centrate business into a compact whole desorves encouragement. It is better for tho storckeepers, better for the patrons, and makes a more lasting im- pression on visitors. And rvapid transit vill contribute lurgely to that aesivable end. store A CHURCH CEX VIAL. The centennial convention of the Episcopal church, which has been in session in New York since October 2, marks an epoch in the history of that denomination of great interest to the entire religious world, The goner: convention is divided into two houses, the house of bishops and the house of deputies, and this arrangement was effected October 2, 1789, The history of the efforts leading to this esult embraces u controversy extend- ing through several years, eventuat- ing in the formal modification of the constitution a hundred yoars ago, 80 us o secure the right of the bishops to sit as a separate house, with the power to originate and propose acts for the concurrence of the house of depu- ties, and to have, under certain circum- stances, a negative on the action of the clerical and lay deputies. The coiucidence of the meeting of the geueral convention of 1889 on the one hundredth anuiversary of the date on which the amendment o the constitution was accedod to cre- ating two houses of the n- vention as co-ordinate branches of the legislative body of the American Epis- copal church has given a peculiar in- torost to the convention of this year, and its prbebbdings have consoquently been rvegarded with more than usual concern by the authoritics and members of the.church. Nearly soventy bishops compose the. upper house, while the ropresentatives of fifty-one dioceses, ench with four clerical and fourlay dep- uties, and fifleen jurisdictions under the charge of missionary bishops, each hav- ing one cal and one lay repre- sentative hawing a seat and voice but no vote, make upfa body numbering over five hundred embers and roprosent- ing a churfh ¥hose boundaries are co- terminous with those of the land. The powers of the general convention of the American Episcopal church are not original but derived. The churches in the respective states of America me into union one hundred yoars ago on the basis of absolute equal- ity, independence and autonomy, and ounch diocese subsequently received into union with the convention has entered nto these federate relations on the same torms. Reserving certain inher- ent rights of cquality and independ- ence, there was surrendered by each on entering the federation of 0s making up the American opal church general in this land such an exercise of independency as would permit withdrawal from the union at pleasure and without the assent of the other dio- coses, and also the right of having tho bishop it might elect con- scerated without the assent of the church at large. Other things given up were the privilege of sole and unro- stricted legisiation, the vight of estab- lishing an independent diocesan lit- urgy, and the rght of making separ- ately any alteration or modification in the compact or charter of union. The convention of this year has de- liberated upon & number of very im- portant questions, among them those ofac in the basis of represcnta- tion and liturgical revision, the latter being regarded as of commanding im- portance. The matter of a fuller rec- ognition of the colored churches has also received consideration. A pro- gressive spivit has pervaded the con- vention, and the vesults of its delibera- tions will doubtless be to the advantage of the future of the church. ARMY REORGANIZATION. Several important measures velating to changes in the methods and or, ion of the army ars likely to bo cox sidered in the next congress, One of these, which attracted attention in the last congv and the preceding the Logan bill, which touched upon many subjedts! of military administra- tion, among sother things a move sum- mary method of disposing of minor of- feuses in the Youtine of army life by constituting im court of a single of- ficer in ecach’ gdarrison. Aunother mens- uro, which more directly aims change of organization, is that of & tor Mandevson, which provides for ad- ding fifty companies to the infaatry, with a view to giving it a tw om- pany. three-battalion organization, like that of the civilfy and urtillery. ‘The objection hitherio to this measure has been that it would inerease the cost of the army at least a million dol Another meunsure, known asg Steelo bill, provides that in time of peace cach of the regiments of cavalry, artillery and infantry, although at all times fully ofiicered, is to have only eight com- panies manned. This would eficet a re- duction in the cost of maintaining the army. A fourth measure, the Wheeler bill, has for its leading feature an iu- crease of the artillery There are a number of other bills relating to army rveorganization that were introduced in the last congress or the one preceding, and asthere isagreat deal of conlflict between them it would seem that an eu- tircly new bill will be ssary as o compromise in order to offect any re- organization. wni- the nec INPELLECTUAL PROGRE The Phi Beta Kappa society of New York, at a recent meeting in Saratoga, pointed a committee to consider menns of securing in connection with the world’s fair, **‘a propor ta- tion of the intellecu the American peopte, us by theiv progress in seicnco and liter ture.” The committee was auth to offer two prizes of thr: dollars for “*the best gene the progress of science and respectively,” such essays to embrace o philosophical d ion of the develop- ment in the past and the prospects for the future. This importanit patriotic work was pliced in the hands of gentlemen fore- most 1n education and letter: They are not only competent to judge of the value of the work submitted, but ad- mirably representative, comprising the presidents of Harvard, Yale, Johns Hop- kins and Cornell colleges and the universaties of Minnesota and Michi- gan. The liberal prizes offered will un- doubtedly comifiand some of the best talent in the country, aud result in a valuable contribution to the history of the nation. Itis to be hopbd that soms putriotic socicty will foilow mendable example and offer prizes for essays on the progressin othet departments of our national life. The industrial development of the country, our progress in the mechanic as well as the fine arts, our marvelous resources, mineral and agricuitural, which make the United States the envy of the world, and our wonderful growth in population during the present century, are them- selvedworthy of the best pens. They certainly would form an admirable historical addition to the material wealth displayed in commemoration of the landing of Columbus. — BEE FLATS, Miss Bjornpfoski, the Icclandic writer, in- teuds to lecture. The man who introduces her won't have any snap, By the time this campuign is over Mr, Snyder will realize that the county treas- urer’s oftice is not his meat, The Germans are very properly rebuking the attempt of Suyder to play cat's paw for his running mate, Pat Ford, Sir Edwin Arnold baving expressed the belief in @ Sau Fraucisoo interview that repre so of wanifested 2d thousand 1ys on literature 2us equally this com- generous OCTOBER 20, thero is no hell, the proachers of that oity are declaring with emphasis that there is, While conceding that Sir Edwin may have beon able to furnish a little light for Asia they insist that he can't throw any on hades, Four Indians are under arrost in tho stato of Washington for murdering a quack med:- cine man, Tho whites have a great deal to learn from their red brethren. When the distingaished statesmen from our neighvoring republics reach Omatia they will be convinced that thero is no place in all Amorica whero mvestments will pan out Dettor, Dodlin granite when quarried from its na- 1ive soil, is a very good material to put un buildings with, but when combined with Vandorbum it is a very unstabio and unreli- able article, Hippolyta has at last been triumphantly clectod president of Hayti, and his dusky henchmon are doubtless making the welkin of Port-au-Prince ring with cries of ** Hip! Hip! Hurrah!” Sarah Bernhardt says that sho frequentl; assombles her birds, cats and dogs aud tolls them secrets which she would never impart to any human boiug, Has Paris no society for the prevention of cruelty to animalst According to expert medical authority the telephone has developed a new disease called “tinnitus,” It is a mild form of “aural over pressure,’” but is fatal to that growing class who persistently ‘cut in” to hear the con- versation-of othier people. Its spread will be hailed as a new deliverance. The statement that the B. & M. organ at Lincoln had its grip on tho postoftice, with a down-hill pull is, according to Congressman Connell, entirely out of Gere. The hungry editor will probably be compelled to contem- plate the government building through the spray of the salt fountain for many moons be- ore he is permitted to weigh his own mail, It 1s said that Miss Mary Gwendolin Caldwell has broken her engagement with Prince Murat because he insisted upon the French custom, which requires the baptis- mal certificates of the parents and grand- parents of the contracting parties 1o bo pro- duced at the wedding. Mary Gwendolin undoubtedly thought this a little early in the proceedings to be talking about baptismal certiticates. - el gos of a Well-Spent Youth, Norristown Herald. ‘Thero are hundreds of rhymsters in this country who could have written Tennyson's lust poem, *T'he ‘Throstle,” but they have got nearly o much for it. i . Stick to the Hash. Louis 5 The boarders in a Philadelphia boarding house have been poisoned by eating oystess. The American boarder who ventures beyond plain hush is ulways wore oc less in perii. Advant e Courier-Towri Criminal Nearly four nundr of typhoid fe are reported ut John: Pa. People e are shivering n wiscrable shanties, and thousands of dollars contributed by a gener- ous public are still in the hunds of red-tape committeemen, - How Dil This Bditor fnow New York Herald, Itis not always the telephone girl with the sweetest voico who has the prettiest face, as many flicty men have found out to sorrow. Whea you strike one of the -dew variety iook out of the window for u cross-eyed white horse. T Dinlomatic Victories, St. I 3 Globe-Democrat, James G. Bilaine has gamel on cons ous triumph in the Samoa watter. If the All-Americas s should accomplish ouly all of what is expected his diplomatic conquest would be greater than those ever achieved by any other Amoricau publicist, —— A Linguistie Desideratum, San Francisco Alta., “The proposition to substitute the English ‘Lft" for American “‘cievator” will not help matters, The elevator also brings things down from un eclevation, and the lift that 1ifts things up also brings them down. What is wanted is a° word that works both ways, 2 Pulve the Sugar Trust. St. Lowis Globe-Demoorat, Tnfluences which the sugar trust would aladly frustrate if it could and dared are compeiing the ‘combine” to “let up” a httle in its exactions. Just now tho trast has lost some of iis old-timo swigger, but the pur- pose of tho people to crush it by legislation should not bo relax intington's Railway Combination. Denver Ttepublican, 1t is probable that the talic about Hunting- ton's having 4 schome w form a gigantic vailway combination, including the Atehisen,” opcka & Santa Fe, the Denver & Rio ande, the Chicago, Milwaukeo & St. Paul, Missouri Pacific and Southern Pacific, is all nonsense. Sucha combination is appavently little less Bobbers Ory “Phiocf. Cinetnnati Commercial G 5 “Che democracy have raised the yoll that the republicans are stealing astate and,rofer to Montana. ‘Che basis of their accusation 18 their own false telegrams. ¥ claim everything, and do it exultingly, and then when the officiul returns come in they groan and talk of stealing. They are nice people to say anything about stealing. If they had not for twelve years habitually stolen six states, they never would have approxin o graboiug the Nation, . Voices From the Dim Past. Buffalo Commercial, Among the articles deposited in the box of relies placed in the c one of the new Pulitzer building in York are two pho- nographic cylinders and one graphophous eylinder containing words spoken by mem- bers of tho World's staff. There is clever- uess in the selection of a relic like that, Fancy the interest with which the talk of men dead Lwo hundrod years will be heard by the fellows who come ucross that box in the ruins of the World building some day. - ny's Man of Lvon. Boston Globe Previous to last weok Bismarck had not attended an opera or & concert for twenty years, Ho has not been inside a church, ex cept strictly on business, ich louger time, nor has he put himself on exhibition in uy foreign country, There are some grand features, aftor all, in this rugged figure of the rcal master of Europe, who spends his vacation on his farm among his farm labor- ers, and despises nothing so muchas to make a show of himself, ———— Deceiiful Czar and Kaiser. Sty Lowis Post-Dispatoh, Czar and kaiser have wet at Berlin and embraced each other repeatedly in public. No two rival belles ata ball could have been more demonstratively tender and affectionate 10 each other in outward appearance, But the Itussian pross interpretations of th s visit were purposely of a character to frecze the genial currents of the German soul and the czar's reception by the German people was correspondingly frigid. The only offect of the ceremonial was 1o assure the public that there will be no immediate cutureak and B0 winter campalgn, 1880.~SIXTEEN PAGES VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. They Would, But Didn't Dare, York Republicans Sixteen counties tho size of York voted for Reeso. The othor sovonty-four for Norval. Is not the sixteen ns apt to be wrong as tho soventy-four! If the railroads owned the soventy-four by right of purchass, they had the power to nominate Church Howe or somo other railroad wan. 1f they had the power, 10 do so, honestly, don't you think they would have done it? Railrond Intrigue Denounc Grand Island Independents The Iudepondont does not stand alono 1n 1ts opposition to, the manipulations of the corporations, which caused the dof of our prosent honest Supreme Judge Reese. This interference of the raviroads is lauded only by railroad orga liko tho Omaha Repub lican and Lincoln Journal. A large number of independent republican papers denounce the railroad intrigues just as much as wo do. Reeso's Defeat an Outrago. Mead Advocate. The defeat of Judge M. B. Reeso for a re- nomination to the supreme judgeship at the republican state convention in Hastings was an outrage committed upon an unsnspocting people. Judge Reese has made Nebraska one of the ablest judges sho has over bad on thesupreme bench, and his renomination and election was only a common courtesy dus b, But tho whole trouble was in the fact that he did not favor corporations as much as he could have done, hienco the fight made on him, Nearly onehalf of the counties thronghout tho state instructed their dele- gates for Reese, but it scems theso instrac- tions were wholly disregarded and proxies wore bought up to such an extent that the whole matter was taken out of the hands of tho people at large and the convention gov into the hands of a few tools. Judge L. T. Norval, the nommnoce, is probably an able man and u good man, but the fact of s being backed by the combined railroud and corporation forces is a sad commentary upon nis nomination, Ivory fair-minded ropubli- can in the state was, no doubt, m favor of the retention of Reosc upon tho supreme beneh, and hie should heve been nominated. By the Eeernal, Not Ulysses Dispatch, Gentlo reader, don't—dou’t get unnecossa- rily excited and we will try and break the news to you as gently as possible, that Gil- bert L. Laws is the nomince for congress en the republican ticket in the Nebraska soe- ond cougressional district, as declared on tha twenty-first ballot by the majority of dolo gates in convention at Hastings, aftor a stub- born and hard fought battlcof three andone- half hours. And why any convention of re- publicans, or even Kuownothings, should foist such an incompetent, unqualificd, un- prepossessing picce of humanity upon the voters of this district for a congressman, 18 beyond our faintest comprehension. The man is no more fitted for so high and honor- able a position than a vig's tail is for o whis tle, and it is to the shame of the re vevublican party of this great agricul- tural district that such & man should bo even dreamed of for congress, much less nominated. Allied with corporations to the extent of doing their biddine in his present oflicial capacity, by re- fusing to reduce the transportation rate of freighit on a basis with Kausas, Missouri and Towa, what hope is there in him in sccuring to the people the merest moicty of justice at the hands of his masters, the railway corpor- ations? Has tue republican party come to that point where anybody can be a congress- man if agrceabloto the railroads? Are the republicans compelled to vote the ticket, aud thercby place a premium upon such unjust and ¢ ful nominations? In the lan- guage of *OJd Hickory” Juckson, “'by the cternal” no! o have seen this poor oid de: crepid and fossilizod man tremblingly try- ing to malo a speceh after his nomination, was ascone of emb that no re- publican convention ought to have made pos- verily, whither are we drift- sy Iy Significant, Keavuey Enterprise. ‘The defeat of Judgo Recse is an unfortun- ate thing for tho rcputation of Nebraska abroad as well as for her mtcrests av kome. It may ulso turn out to be an unfortunate thing for the republican party. Judge Reese is an ablo man with an honor- avle record. He has been neither an anti- railroad shrieker nor a toot of corporations, Ho has been simply an upright judgze, ad- ministering justice according to the dictates of common sense, of his conscience aud th statutes. He has served oue term aceeptably and ought to have auother if faithful service in high places is to be considered here as els hero, a good reason for indo ment, Whatever may have been the motives of the clements that opposea him and whatever the merits of Mr. Norval, who received the nomination, tho defeat of Judge Reese will everywhere be ascribed to the work, money and influence of the railronds. And the im. putation that the supreme court of Nebraska can be made up in the interest of the corpo- rations and manipulated in their bebalt 1s an imputatation which will injure her ev where and humblé the self-respect of her own people. If there is any branch of the government which should be, Iike ¢ wife, above suspicion, it is the supreme court, and the defeat of Judge Reeso at this time is unpleasantly significunt, AS OTHERS SEE US. fins Both Politics and Wranglé Now. Denver News, Omaha is diverted from general politics by the usual struggle between the board of pub- lic works nud tho paving contractors, KFor a Valuable Consideration. St. Joscuh News. Tue Ovans Bee declurcs that Omaha real estate is still an object of distinguished con- sideration This will surprise people who were wont to believe that 1o one ever con- sideved 1t at all, Honest Unde St. Louis Post-Dispateh, nator Manderson has wiped out the charge agawst him of being a party to tho illegal and frandulent rerating of his pen- sion by sending back to the pension depart- ment his rerating certificate. But on the other hand ho marred the credit of the acy by returning the certificate with extreme reluctance, sud only after Secrovary Noble had declured the rerating of Lis pension ille- gal and unwarrante Compulsion. Nev Has Passed Kanss City Tinies " says due Oyana B lias o ation than the five largest cities in Kansas combined.” Really, Omaba 18 r~She That Point “Omal larger popt modest, If Omana's population is as great a8 the combined population of Kansas City, Kan., and either Wichita or Topeka she has good cause to boast. And she certainly has notas mauy inhabitants as the three citios combined. Some of theso days Omaha will be setting horself up as a rival of Kansas City. 4 A Bad Habit of Sul Kansas Oity Journal “Last year,” said an Omaha m Ius sermon on suicide, “we had an e of suicides in Omaha, and having been fre quently called out of bed to see young men who were foolish enough to attempt their own lives, T have determined to speak out a few plain words agaiust the practice, for my good if not for yours.” A suicidal bractice iding which rosults imdirectly In disturbing the slumbers of a worthy ministor is indeod rop- rehensible and calls for storn robuke, A Now Capital Orime, New York Telegram. ft is a capital crimo in Novraska to steal cabbagos. A farmor ncar Omaba fatally shot a young girl who, ho says, ho caught in the act of robbing him of the succulent veg: otable. Cabbages in Nobraska seom to bo us fatal as cloctric light wires in New York. e otk ity COUNTRY BREEZES, Taking His An Ulysses Herald, The editor of the Scotin Herald is taking his annual bath in the hot springs of Dakota. nal Bath, A Tale of Two Cities Wittow Springs Entorprise Thero is n merchant in tho burg across th e croek who thinks he has a seinch on eteraity and the world on a dowa hill stide, He ro- « fused to soil goods for cash to & Springs man this week. Mr. Brown's Achievements, Columbus Journal, Myron J. Brown was in the city Thuraday . He was rocontly allowed a ponsion of $12 a month with back pay for two years and soven mouths, He rocoutly took first promium at Osccola for two-year-old trottor, the colt going the mile in 8:35; also threo-yeareold, in 3:30—the former partly, the latter al Sauch blood, A Oruel Fillmore County Itepublican. A genuine old moss-back accosted u tho postofiice door as the new editor of the Democrat, rushed past us for his mail like a cyclone after a balloon or a democrat fora drink, with the interrogation—‘Why don't you wear good clothes like one editor.” It Was to us a pretty hard blow, o be twitted of our proverty-stricken and shabby ap- pearance. We used to have good clothes too, about four years ago. Our brother hasn't been in the business long enough to wenr his goods oues out yet, you see. A Gizantic Prospectus. Sulton Advertiser, J. W. Johnson, the handsome, popular and cradite editor of this journal, is absent from the city this weok, The last words ho said tous upon leaving wero: ‘“I'reat everybody feirly and all alike.” We have not had tung to follow out his instructions as fully as wo could wish, but_in next week’s issuo we will furnish our readers with a varioty of inter- esting ronding matter. Wo will take ocea- sion to write a favoravle notico of all the democratic candidates in the county. Wo will also attempt to prove to the peoplo that they made u grave mistake whon they de feated Grover Cleveland. Wo shall uot for et the prohibitionists, and will make the whisky elemeat think they have the world Dy tho tail with a dowa hiil pull. Wait for next week’s issu T IN OCTOBER. George Arnold, O'er hill and field, October's glories fade; O'er hilland field the b! birds south- ward fly; The brown icaves rustle down tho forost elade, Where naked branches make a fitfal shade, And the lust blooms of autuma withered le. “Tne berries on the hedgerow ripen woll, Holly and cedar, burning bush and brier; ‘The partridge drams in some half-tudden dell, 11 tho ground is gemmed with leaves that fell, Last storm, from the tall maple's crown of fire. Wher Tho chirp of crickets and the hum of bees Come faintly up from marsh and meadow land, Whero reeds and breeze, And sunbearns ¢ trees, Green on the g rushes wlispor in the ant between the moss-growa 1ss and golden on the sand. rom many a tree whose tangled bougtis aro baro Lean the rich clusters of the ¢ vino October’s yellow hazes dim the air Upon the uplands and the valley, where The distant steeples of the village shine. Adown the brook the dead leaves whirling go; Above the brook the scarlet sumachs burn The lonety lieron sounds his note of woe In gloomy forost swamp where raakly grow The crimson, cardinal and feathery fern, nbering Autumn is sad; a cold blue horizon Darkly cneircles chequered ficlds farms, Where late the gold of ripening shone, And Autnmn moans the 1oss of Summer's charms, and arvests e RUSSIA AND GERMANY, A Man Who Thinks Their In Ave Not Antagonistic. SaLr Lake Crrx, Oct. 14.—To the of Tus Brw: In your issue of Octob noticed a serics of commouts on liuropean affairs, cvidently contributed, wiich con tains certain statoments that to o cortain kuowledge are very unjust and unsupported by any well-established ‘act. 1 refer to the romarks on Germany and Russia, I is stated that the interests of Germany and Russia ure antagonistic. It is further as- serted that the organs of Prince Bismarck’! have frequentiy stated with almost *brutish’ fraukness, that the triple allisnce was formed in ‘r it of Russion ambition inthe Balkaus. o this it need ouly be wwd What @ look at the map must s anyone that Germany has no intercsts in, on or'beyoud the Ialkaus superior to the inter- ests of any other commercial country, cer tainly not nearly as much as Great Britain, and fur less oven than France. If thisis true, then the ioterests of Germany and Russia are not antagonisti The interests of cwilizod Earope may be,and probably arc, antagonistic to Lussia, and those of Austria are rticularly 80, but w0 say this of German; mistake. Ger- many and KRuss bor states, o Russiun bound; oxtonsivo thau ‘I'ne latter and ste Editor 121 countr ng commercinlly muuufuctury far shead of Russia, do sives reasonably free trade witn KRussia, but Itussia puts the Leaviest restraints on each trade. In this senso there might be talk of antagonistic intents, bt the trivle allianco could not alter this, The explanation of alliance is too simple, 1am afraid, 1 be ac cepied by the American jonrnalists who persist in finding all s0rts of deap mysteries in Buropean politics, 1t is simply tho con- tinued ageressiveness of 'rauce, and the latter couutey's persistent effort’ to effeel an alliance with Itussia for the purpose of war, Such an alliance would threaten tho peace of Kurope, for the members of the triple allinnce we peacoful, while Russin and France huvo always been aggressive, But the gravest mistake is made in the asscrtion that the German chancellor unned and schemed and anuounced 1t a8 a ¢ against Iussian progress to the east. The mistake 18 self-evident. Prince Bis murck, thix bhis worst enemy must admit is & thorougnly houest man, but Lad it beou Lis honest intention to slop Kussian pro gress as above claimed, he inight still have continued houest without being a fool. Kor ouly a fool would have blabbed a sec was evidently of the greatost importance. The facts aro that lismarck never mudo such o _statemont, that, on tho contrary he opposed the idea of a portion of the Ger man parliament to interfore in the Bulgarian affair, He turned the whole mattor into ridicule ana emphatically stated that ( mun interests in Bulgaria were as nothing compared with the friendship of Russia, that Itussia had a good right to her influenice in Bulgaria and that Germuny had no interests st all in that country. C. A. Egorxr. the existence of this