Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 31, 1889, Page 4

MORNING. o e TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION Dl"illnfl Sunday, One Year.. x Months ... wes ree Months, . Rpnday Jics, Une Year . eekly Bee, One Year with Premium.. OFFICES, Omana, Bee Building, Chicago Office, 57 Rookery Bullding New Vork, Hooms 14 and 15 Tribune Build- g, (\'uumnmm No. 513 Fourteenth Street. Cormeil Blufts, No. 12 Pearl Strect. Lincoln, W29 P Sti cet, Eouth Omaha, Cornef N and 20th Streets. CORRESPONDENCE. All communieations relating to news and edi- torinl matter should be addressed to the Editor- 181 Department. BUSINESS LETTRERS, All Vinsiness letters and remittances should be addressed fo The fleo Pubiishing Company, Omuha, Drafts, checks and postoffice orders be made payable 1 the order of the company, e Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors tutlding Farnam and Seventeenth Stre The Bee on the Trains. There 1s no excuse for a faflure to get Trw AR on the trains. Al newsaenlers have been noti- ed to carry & full supply. Frayeiers who want Tk Wiy and can’t got 1€ on trains where other Omahanapers are carried are requested o no- 1ty Tiw Hee. Pleasn be particnlar to give in all cases full fnformation as to date, rallway and number of train, Glve.ns your name, not for publication or nn- necessary use, but a8 a guarantee of zood faith, THE DAILY B Sworn Statement of Circulation. Ftare of Nebraska, 1 P County of Douglas. | Georie 1, Tzschuek, secretary of The Bes Publishing Company, doss solemuly swear that “1he acturl cireulation of THE DALLY BER for the week ending October 2, 1589, was as follows: Sunda Mond: Tuesd Wednosday, Oct, 25, . Thursday, Oct. 3 Friday, Baturday, Average....... GRORGE B, 7 State of Nehraska, Vi County of Donglas, | £worn 1o before me and subscribed to in my presence this 26th Gay of October, A. D, 1880, (Senl.] P. FEIL, Notary Pubiic, George B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- Jones and says that he'ls secretary of Thd o Publishing Company, that the actual ayerago Uaily cireulation of Mk DALy, Bee for ghe month of October 18, was 18084 coples; for Noveuiber, 1884, 18,056 'cop for December, %) coples; for Junuary, 188, 18, or Marci, a4 cople 1888, fes:' for Fobruary, 1880, 15,80 copio for Apii, 1 for Angust, ., 189, 18,710 ol grand jury’s report insures tie election of Berlin and Smith. It is ¥ & question of majorities. THE report of the grand jury on county affairs should be placed in the hands of every voter by the republicans. SHERTFF COBURN'S management of the county jal is not enthusiastically commended by the grand jury. A change is necessary and the voters will cheerfully grant it. TuAT the court house retaining wull was a snug job in itself is evidenced by the liberality of the contractor to all concerne His failure to bribe memm- . bers of the board did not affect the length of his haul on the county treas- latest rumor in Chicago newspa- reles is to the effect that negotia- tions wo pending with a view to the consolidation of the Times and Herald. An increase in the selling prico of all the morning papers will probably follow a consummation of the deal. THE mayor’s veto of the viaduct bond “ordinance will not seriously delay de- cisive action on the union depot. It will close the many loopholes in the < proposition and guard the interests of “the city. The changes proposed will reduce the opposition to the bonds. Tue well meaning people who haye sent a petition to President Harrison, protesting agaivst the political crimes in the south and asking him to use all the force that belongs to his high office “to put a stop to them, evidently have very little idea of the character and limitations of the executive office. The president is wholly powerless to pre- vent these political outrages and erimes, and no amount of moral force that he might bring to bear would probably exert the slightest influence. Un- less congress shall onact a law, which is improbable, giving the pr dent the authority to provide for the protection of citizens in the exercise of their political rights, so far as federal elections are concerMed, the country must wait for the remedy for political crimes in the south in the growth of a more just and patriotic sentiment than now prevails there, This may be slow in coming—the work, perhaps, of more than o generation—but 1t is to be hoped forin time by all who believe in the worth and permanence of American institutions. Theve is o wide diversity of opinion among republican congressmen concern- ing tariff revisiony internal revenue laws und other important legislative mens ves. Ninety-three out of a total republican membership of one hundred and sixty-nine have given their views in revly to questions propounded by the New York Zribune. Of this number eighty-six are in favor of tariff revision on the lines laid down by the senate last year. Several of the affirmative an- swers were qualified, some favoring higher duties on wool, tin plate, ete., while others favor a greater reduction or repeal of the duty on sugar. In regard to the internal revenue laws only twelve favor the abolition, the remainder favoring various degrees of modification. Sixty- five fuvor a repeal of the tax on tobacco, and eleven declare for a reduction, but there is a practical unanimity for reten- tion of some of the tax on spirits. Sev- enty-live favor national control of con- gressional elections. On the question of subsidies to steamship lines with a view to the restoration of the American flag on the high seas, ninety-one reply in the afirmative, but disagree us to the best means. The replies are a fain index to the character of the legislation which the coming congress will under- take. They indicate that no material change in the tariff will be made by the Fifty-first congress. A SLANDERER UNMASKRED. 1 On Tuesday afternoon the following lettor reached TuE Ber office by post: Liscors, Oet. %8.—To the Editor of Tae Hre: The writer, a constant reader of your paper, listened to-mght to Helen M, Gougar n Lincoln, and for twenty minutes your ed- itor was made the subject and object of the most scathing rebuke ever heard in this city. She assorted that he connived with the Liquor Dealors’ association to defeat the prohibition amendment in the last legislatu by accepting bribes for his work and send- ing agonts into Towa who made false reports of the condition of the stats under pro- hibition rule. She stated also that he re- ceived and accepted four thousand dollars from the liquor intorests for his work, and advised evory one of the fifteen hundred people present to expunge Tne Bem from their homes, and if subscribed for, to stop subscription of the same atonce. Said in conclusion that she hoped “‘God Almighty would have pity on such a creature, who would sell soul and body to the devil for four thousand dollars.” She expects to visit about fifty towns in this state and thus ad- vertise the paper and its editor. The writer advises that you have your reporter at David City or Tekamah, where she speaks next, to report verbatim what she says. Yours, J. H. Buny. Immediately upon receipt of the above I wired to David City and Teka- mal to ascertnin when Mrs. Gougar was billed to speak. The response from Tekamah was to the effect that she was to speak in that town the same evening. Thereupon I started for Tekamah on the fivst train, accompanied by a short- hand veporter and Mr. Griswold, a member of Tue BEE'S regular staff, who is one of the reporters who had visited the leading cities of Iuwa last year under wmy direction to ascertain and report the practical workings of prohibition. In going to Tekamah my object was self that Mrs. Gougar was making these criminal charges, and if they wero repeated to demand of her, in the presence of her audience, the proofs for her aceusation. This, in my judgment, was the only effective way to refuto chavges that affected the standing of THE BEE and my own reputation asa man and citizen. The charges made at Lincoln were substantially repeated at within my own hearing. Few men in my position would have been able to control their temper while these false- hoods and imprecations were being uttered. But I remained silent until after Helen Gougar had finished her tirade against me, and then only I arose to ask her whence came the proofs for her to assure Tekamah sortions in regard to my alleged criminal fnterference with the last leg~ wslaturs and my acceptance of a four thousand dotlar bribe. Conscious of the fact that she had not a scintilla of credible proof against me, Mrs. Gougar peremptorily insisted that 1 must not be heard in that hall, and by her persistence to evade a public expos- ure of the wrong she had wilfully and maliciously done me, she has proved herself to bo unworthy of the respectin which men hold every honest woman. Her conduct has been as dishonorable as it was shameless, unchristfan and un-American. No man or woman possessed of a spark of decency and honor would publicly chargea man with penitentiary offenses and when faced by the accused refuse him a hearing in his own defense, much less refuse him a chance todemand the source from which his acouser has made up such charges. No honorable man or woman and no- body who has any respect for religion would be guilty of publicly bearing false witness against any man, howe Dble, and cap the wwdice by inciting a credulous audience to do bodily violence to the victim of foul slander, and urge his ar- er hum- climax of infamy and vost under the pretense that he” was a disturber of a “‘religious meeting.” Mrs. Gougar has taken advantage of the criminal laws of Nebras| which do not punish slanderers, and therefore leave her free to roam about spreading falsehood and calumny without incur- ring any other risk than a suitin the civil courts for damages. My only recourse to set myself and Tux BEE right is to denounce Mrs. Gougar as a common slanderer, and her charges that I had conspired to corrupt the legislature, or that I had received four thousand dollars or any other sum for my work against prohibition or for the collection of prohibition statistics in Towa, as a malicious fabrication. I denounce Mrs. Gougar as a falsifier of the legislative records, ana her will- ful and malicious perversion of testi- mony taken before the last legislature as an exhibition of depravity that can- not be too strongly condemned. She has declared in the presence of hun- dreds of people that the records of the last legislature show that P. E. Iler testified before the investigating com- mittee that he had paid me four thous- and dollars for work done in the inter- estot the liquor dealers, when asa matter of fact Mr. Iler testified that he had never paid me one dollar for any such work, and furthormore that he had paid no money to THE BEE for ite re- ports or influence. As a matter of fact, the sum total that Tue BEE ever re- ceived from Mr. Iler during and since the legislative session was ubout fifteen dollars for copies of the paper contain- ing the Iowa reports, The charge that I sent disreputable men to Iowa to falsify the facts with re- gard to the working of prohibition in the cities is as untrue as ave the charges of bribery and ‘‘rum boodle.” When prohibition came wup for dis- cussion in the legisiature T directed the city edilor of Tnie BEe and Mr. Gris- wold, one of our most trustworthy re- porters, to make a tour of the leading Towa cities to ascertain and report what number of di dons and drug stores, if any, were selling liquor, and how many of these places had paid the reve- nue license tax. These reporters were directed to state only what came under their personal observation, and Mrs. Gougar’s assertion to the contrary not- withstanding, I have reason to believe that the reports published by Trnr Ber were not exaggerated in the least. So much on that score. I denounce as an infamous libel that I have in any way, shape or manner sought by bribery or other illegal means to defeat the prohibition amend- ment bofore the last legislature. I wasat Omaha fighting the city hall relocation project at the time the vote was taken on prohibition in both houses, and I challenge any one to name any member of the legislature whom I approached with any improper proposal. The whole story told by Mrs. Gougar has been concocted maliciously with a manifest design to break down the in- fluence of this paper and create preju- dice agninst me personally among re- putable people. E. ROSEWATER. —— NEXT TUESDAY'S ELECIIONS. Elections will be held in ten states noxt Taesday, but as to the result in only a few of them is there a general interest in political eircles. Among these Ohio commands perhaps thoe largest degree of interest. It that state should go democratic it would unquestionably have a most encouraging: and stimulating effect upon the party throughout the country. And the Ohio democracy have made « most active and vigorous cam- prign in which they have probably gained something from republican mis- chances. The most serious of these was the mistaken charge made by Mr. Hal- stead against the democratic candidate for governor, that he was interested in a patent ballot box which he endeavor- ed, as a member of congress, to have the government adopt for use in federal elections. Mr. Halstead was imposed upon and made a retraction, from which it is not doubted the democratic candidate obtained some benefit. Another mischance for the re- publicans came 1o the illness of Gov- ernor Foraker, just when the campaign was most heated and the sturdiest fight- ing was required on the part of the leader. The republicans, however, ex- press confidence in the result, claiming that they will elect the entire state ticket and the legislature, which will choose.a successor to Henry B. Payne. There is a very general interest in the Virginia contest, and it is said to be the opinion in admini circles that the republi good chance of Mahone is said to have effected a most thorough organization, particularly of the negro voters, to whose interest in the result he has made most direct ap- peal. There hasbeen so large a de- fection of white republicans, however, and the election machinery isso com- pletely in the hands of the de- mocracy, that it is not casy 1o see upon what the hope of re- publican success is based. The contest in Massachusetts is not without inter- est, for the reason that the nomination of Brackett by the republicans dissatis- fied a considerable element of the party and 1t may be that this dissatisfaction is sufficiently widespread to defeat the party, or at least to allow the election of Russell, the democratic candidate, who has made a very aggressive and effective campaign. The election in New York possesses quite as much interest for the effect the result may have upon the future of Governor Hill as upon that of the two political parties in the country. The democratic ticket was made and thej campaign has been conducted in the intevest of Hill, and its success would be his_victory. The friends of Mr. Cleveland ve an op- portunity to rebuke the governor and they may do so. Itis the expectation that they will, which gives a warrant for confidence in republican successin New York. There is nothing in the situation in the other states to justily the belief that they will not continue in the political column, where they are at present, although in some of them more orless of change in the strength of parties may be shown. OBSTRUCTIVE CATILEMEN. The Cherokee Indian commission, which spent last summer in an unsuc- cesstul attempt to induce the Indians to surrender their lands to the govern- ment, charged the failure to the influ- ence of the cattlemen. It may not have been wholly due to this, for the Chero- kees do not lack the intelligence to see when they have the best side of a bar- gain, and in this matter they are in a very safe position to make the most advantageous terms. Hav- ing in view what the gov- ernment has done in purchasing other Indian lands, it is not vemarkable thatv the Cherokees, well fortified as they are behind strong treaty arrangements, should have devermined not tosurrender their lands until the government was prepared to offer 1ore liberal terms than it had been doing. But, un- doubtedly, the cattlemen have not been idle, and as their business relations with the [ndians are such as to en- able them to exert a great deal of influence, while their - interest is to oppose the surrender of the lands desired by the government, it is ensy to understand that they would spare no effort to induce the Indians to reject the govercment’s proposals. The commission recommended that the cattlemen be driven from the Cherokee outlet forthwith, and the wmatter has received very careful consideration for several weeks from the secretary of the interior. A delicate point was that the leases of the cattlemen were approved by the predecessors of the present secretary of the inter- ior, and to drive them from the ‘‘out- let,” would amount Lo repudiating the acts of pro®&@ing heads of the interior department in granting the leases. The oonclusion renched by Secretary Noble, however, lv‘hnt the lenses are illegal, since to b alid they must be made by treaty, pursuant to the constitution, and that it is within the authority of the president $o remove unauthorized per- sons from the reservation whenever their presends is believed to be detri- mental t0'“the peace and welfare of the ' “ Indians. The fact that the cattlemen have inter- fered with the negotiations of the Unitedl States, in deflance of law and against public interest, the secre- tary says, gives occasion for the govern- ment to consider the propriety of laying its hands upon these citizens to restrain them from proceeding further in this direction. Accordingly the cattlemen are notified to leave the ‘‘outlet” on or before June 1 next, and the Cherokees receive notico that the United States may see fit hereafter to assert its right by suparior title. Obviously this matter may grow into an exceedingly interesting issue. The Cherokees are not likely to rocede from their position withoutastruggle. What- ever others may think of the views of the secretary of the interior regarding the fairness and liberality of the govern- ment’s proposition for the surrender of theso lands, the fudians will doubtiess not be greatly impressed with them. They have heard similar arguments from the commission without being af- fected by them, and thoy will doubtless seel to maintain the position they bave taken, which they claim has the war- rant of treaty agreement. As to the cattlemen, whose leases received the approval and ratification of the secre- tary of the intevior, they will hardly abandon them without a contest, which will enuble the courts to pass upon tho question of their rights. Ultimately, there can be no doubt, the government will obtain possession of these lands. The general interest will render this necessary and inevitable. But in the meantime the matter is likely to be- come so0 intoresting as to command a greas deal of public attention. THE GRAND JURY RE The report of the grand ju every charge made by THEBEE aguinst the bourd of county commissioners, and throws side lights on various transuc- tions that were heretofore képt in the dark. The gistof the report is that the members of the board, while not crimi- nally dishonest, are totally incompetent to manage the important, affairs of tho county. From the inception of the hospi- tal job to ‘the present time, the con- duet of the boavd has been n suec- cession of recijless blunders. The lot- ting of the eontract to irresponsiblo job- bers plunged fhe board into a maze of difficult from which it had neither the ability por moral stamina to extri- cate itself, The contractors and super- intendents toolk advantage of this care- lessness with the result of imposing on the county a building which the grand jury finds is nob only a menace to life buta monument to the stupidity and inefficiency of the contractors] and commissioners, and a disgrace to the county. Negligence and unbusines ods are stamped on ail trav the board. The records are 1ncom- plete, ordinary rules of management were set aside, and unseemly haste marks the conduct of business involv- ing vast outlays of public money. Im- portant papers bearing on the scandal- ous Pauly vault bill were spirited away, as well as other records, which pre- vented the grand jury from making a complete investigation of ail the jobs perpetrated by the county ring. The picture presented by the grand jury is not a cheerful one for the tax- payers. The disgraceful jobbery visi- ble in all the acts of the board robs the county of hundreds of thousands of dol- lars, without any equivalent. It is the natural result of placing in important _positions men possessing neither the ability nor business training to properly fill them. The clection of Maginunis and Corrigan would simply mean a con- tinuance of the scandal, whereas Messrs. Berlin and Smith, the republi nomine possess the intelligenc training and integrity to elevate th business methods of the board and prove a barrier to the horde of jobbers now regulaely raiding the county treasury. PORT. confirms ike meth- actions of A Tardy Hecognition. Louisvitle Cowrier-fournal., Columbus was quite a sailor, but it has taken four hundred years to set somebody to thinking of naming a ship in his honor, A Sure Thing for Somebody. Chicago Heraid. A New York paper offers u prize of $1,000 for the best original idea for the world’s fair, It wou'ld seem as if 8 New Yorker might win the prize und et back his money at the same time by sending a subsoription of that amount to the fair committee, e —— Stuck Fast in the Mud of Ages. Indianapolts Journal, Goverfor Hill ld the convention of New York democrati¢’ clubs the other day, that thedemocratic payty stands just where it did yearsago. Of couyse it does; more than that, itstands just wheve it did a quarter of a cent- uary ago--namely: at the tail end of the procession of progress and reform. There are no reasons 1o hope, either, that it will move ahead in the next twenty-five years, - The Extension of Democracy. Hoston. Globe, The spirit of, democracy is no longer to be found in the covtage only. In thesc days of progress it even enters the palace, The other day at Spili as King Humbert was re- entering his hotel after a national review he was met by an individuay, who, kneeling down, presented a petition. **Why on your knees?” said his wajesty roprovingly. “Don’t you know that a man should never kueel to anotuer mani" —-— The Lowest of the Low. Chicago Tribune, Senor Alfonso, of Chili, hit the nail squarely on the head when he said in his Chicago speech that women io this country are treated with respect and consideration, and that this fact 1s an evidence of high degree of refined civilization. It is more than that Senor, it is an evidence of correct taste. The man who doesn’t admire and re- spect and worship American women, sir, i & dull, inseusate clod unflt even to sit on sn American jury. THE SPEAKERSHIP. Olaims of Colonel Henderson, of lowa, for That Distinction. Wasmiarow, Oct. 20.—| Correspondence of Tun Bre. | —The contest for the speakership of the Fifty-first congroess is so close at hand that gossip concerning those prominently connected with it becomes of interest. The cndidates 8o far in the fleld are Messrs. Reed of Maine, McKinlay of Ohio, Cannon of Illiinois, Burrows of Michigan, and Hendor- son of Jowa. The newspapers have gossiped more about the first four namod gentlemen than the last one mentioned, although he 18 one of the strongest men in the count: Less is known of Colonel Henderson than anyof the other aspirants, largely because ho is a man of a very rotiring and modest dis- position, although one of the strongest de- baters in the kouse and one of itsoldest members. It is therefore proper, just at this time, to tell who he is, what he has done to make him merit recoguition at the hands of the Fifty-frst congress. This can be dono as a matter of intercst, and not as an adver tisement for him in any sense, Colonel Henderson 18 a phisique, with a face that 1s good rather than handsome, honesy, earnest, strong, a sort of rugged regularity as to foatures, with high, broad foretead, surmounted by a full suit of bair--aftor the manner of his Scotch anceatry—hair and moustache soft both in texture and hue, which is iron gray, rapidly turnming lichter. In stature he fs rather large, in carriage graceful, even in spite of his urtificial limb, his pose stately, and his manner excoedingly magnotic. He is & born statesman, and in the conduct of & question on thefloor of the house I have nover known him to be ruled out of order, although the opposition have tried many times 10 do 80, when he was making a boyonet charee right into their ranks. His strength is quite equalled by his courtesy, however, and those ‘who expect an easy victory over him becans he does not bluster invariably huve the mor- tification of their defcat intensified by the chagrin, of disappointment, For instance, when an opponent avtacks his vosition on & question, Henderson does not howl a vitu- perative denial—as, [ am sorry to say, is the frequent style among our legislators—but gently, with a manner almost hesitating, and somewhat misleading on that account, asks 10 have the records read, and the records in- variably agree with him. He was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the youngest of ten children, and even as i boy manifested the strong traits of charac- ter 80 common 1o ancestry. It is as hard to find a namby -pamby Scotchman as a bald- headed one, His grandfuther, on tho ma- terval side, was o scceder from the ¢ lished church of Scotlaud, and founded first Sunday school i his purish, in w he also taught. With a great coutemot for the “divine rights of kings or priests,” and 8 high regurd for his feliow men, he coupled a strone desire to better their condition by the diffusion of knowledge, if only n Sunday schools, though such a course was awfully radical there, in those days, even when tinctured with theolo, Aund the son inherits from this staunch, old _churchman faith in the rights of mau, and the strongest hatred for everythiog savorihg of oppres- sion, either in mental or pysical bondage. He was a leader when a school boy, partly for this reason, and partly because he never allowed himself to fail 1 un undertaking. When he was a hittle chap, not more than eight or ten yenrs of age, his mother nsually sent him to the murk near the old home- stead in upper 10wa, to dispose of the smaller products of the farm: and Davie never brought an ouxce of butter or cggs back. “My mother told me to scil them, and I'lt do it, if it takes all night,” ho said, and proceeded to inform the purchaser with tno fact that pro- ducts hud @ value equivalent to the price pain, decliningto yield to the various dis- couragewts of trade, just as he did subse- quently when his country sent him to recruit for the army, and afterwards to fight for the old fiag, avd us he docs now, when he is still upholding our liberties in the halls of con- gress. £0 you see the popular suying of Gen- eral Grant that he would ““figntit out on this line if it took all summer,” was borrowéd, after all, from littte Dave Henderson forty years ago. He was a boy, in school at the Upper Towa university, wnen the first shot was fired on Sumter, and s youug heart was instantly on fire, He determined to go tothe war, but uot alone; so springing the muster roll on his fellow students in the chapel one evening after prayers, ho made a rousing speech for the old flag and the union estab- lishied by our fathers. liven then his per- suasive eloquence swayed the hearts of his rers, and twenty recruits responded, s forming the nuclens of Company C, elfth regiment, Towa wfautry. His success was the cause of s e w man of fine him being s, 10 recruit for e company and regiment, 8o he held war meetings diily, and in one week the -com- pany was filied. Then he wus nominated as captain, but declined because he thought he was too young for so responsible a place, though not t00 young to create the body that calied himn to be their chief. He accepted, however, the first lieutenancy, givez him unaaimously, in which position he performed the duties of commander most of the time This exhibits one rare characteristip, Hen- derson never docs anything for buncombes; if he undertakes a job, itis because he knows ho can put it through, ‘and thatis why no one ever knew nim to fail. - Among his recruits he enlisted a strappimg young fellow with about one-eighth of the despised negro blood in his veins. This fact wver occurred to the sturdy Scotoh-Ameri- 1 liberty-lover as a bar to his acceptance as a soldier, especially to fight in his own cause, but ‘Dave was far in advance of the times, the men of the company refused to serve with one ever so_ slightly tainted, and it took years of bloody war to teach these native born Americans that bis infant lungs had breathed in with the aiv of the land of Wallace o und imbibed with his Scotish mo i, that allmen are really and truly and equal. he 13th Iowa was one of the regiments of tho brigade selected to storm Fort Don- aldson on the left of the union line, The charge was successful, but Dave Henderson was severcly wounded in_the throat, on the robel worls, yet neresoluteiy dectined every offer of ussistance to leave the captured worlks till our lines were 1 indisputable po- session and he had bocome 8o weak that be could no longer stand. His staying aualities wero still further exempiified when he was wounded a second simo at_the battle of Cor- inth wiien our men were resisting u charge of General Price. This wound cost him leiz and very nearly his life, and yet, befcre it was fairly healed he returned to the field as colcnel of thed6in Iowa infantry, suid his brother, Capt. W. L. Henderson of Min- nezoua, from whom I obtained many of the facts used here, and who was himself a brave soldier and uscful oficer. *1 have had opportunities of knowing this brother of mine thoroughly, from u child to mauhood, and ho never botrayed @ trust, proved falso to friendship or took undue ad- vantage even of an enemy.” As un illustration of the integrity of his character, his brother told the following 10- cident. When ho left home, o oy, to attend school, his mother said to him: “David, you are going away from home, Will you write a letter to your mother ouce a weels till you return “Mother, I will,” he replied; and though he never returned to stay, goiug that sohool room to the army, that weekly letter came to hier, from school, camp wnd hospital, from bis law office and _courts of ustice; ‘and, later on, from the white dowed house on tha bill in our beautiful capital, throuis all his busy life, till just a few years ago, when she aied, Although a veteran, in army parlance, Colonel Henderson is still a young man; born in 1540, still on the sunny side of his mid-century’; but honors have been heaped upon him. " During a part of 63 und '64 to was commissioner of the board of enroll- ment, Third district of lowa; thus serving his country, even when his wounded limb in- capacitated him from more active service, and resigning he returned o the fleld, as stated above, before it was fairly well After tue war was over, and be returned to Towa once wore, but returned a!l uufitted, by reason of bis wounds, for s former occupa: tions, he was appointed collector of internal revenue in the Third district, which posi- tion_he resignea to enter as 'partner into the firm” where he studied law. He was also assistant United States trict attorney for the norfhern district of lowa, but again resigned—Henderson al- ways resigns, he is never ousted—to give his undivided atfention to the law. * Was special counsel for the government in the famous Ruunberg trials for the violating the inter- nal revenue aws, and after a trial of 1 cighteen days, got & verdicy aud judgment for the government amounting to $108,000, In 1830 was chairman of the Towa delegation to the Chicago republican convention; was cnairman of the Hlwne central committoe, taking active part in the proceedings with Deptie, Logan, Conkling and others. In 1888 was again ohairman of the Towa delegation at Chicago, and failing to get his favorite, Senator Allison, nominated led vigorously for General Harrison, Has twice boon per- manent chairman of the republican stato convention of fowa; and in_all these posi- tions as presiding officor has shown ability to hold such a place, with digni firmness, courago and absolute fairnoss. As to temper, quoting from his own words when told some time siuco of friendly criticism on his invariable courteous bearmg under the post_aggravating circumstancos, sald he: ““Temper is a dangerous thing in a presiding officor, uniess the absolute servant of its owner. Thope I have that control. Tho: who know me best, have served with me in peaco and war, in court and congress, will credit mo with' that control.” Colonel Hen- derson wili bo in his fourth term of congross at the convening of the Pifty-firat, nominated by acclamation and elected by ‘a large ma- jority. Pruny S. Hearn, RS Wi STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, A lodgo of Modern Woodmen tias been or- ganized at Gordon, It bas cost Cheyenue county 1,501 to run its poor farm this year up to October 1. It 18 prodicted that $75,000 worth of flax will be raised fn Nuckolls county noxt year. Tho Creighton hixgh school boys are taking oxorciso and hard kicks theso days with a foot ball. The citizons of Harrisburg hive subscribed 8500 toward the erection of a Methodist church at that place. A Blair man sold worth of tomatoes from one ncre of ground this soason and left 200 bushels on the vines to decay. H. H, Bowio, of Elm Creck, has purchased forty-onecars of Colorado cattle which he will feod on his ranch this winter. About threo hundrod barrels are manu- factured daily at Union and filied with apples, the crop bemg very abundant. Hen I, Hildebrand, who Las boeon con- nected with the Pawnco Pross for six years, has sold and _wants to buy a_paper in’ some good town. Write him av Pawnee City. Eugene Ong, son of Judee Ong, residing near Nevada, was thrown from a horse he was riding, striking on his head and causmg concussion of the brain, He was uncon- scious for twenty-four hours aud is still in a critical condition. Mrs. William M. Naggs, of KKearney, has left her husband and three children and gono 01 8 Visit to relatives in Kausas. Mr, Nugis leard that sho coutemplaled leaving and went to the depot to head her off, but she re- fused to bo headed and left in 'spite of his expostulations, Ollie Zimmerman, & young man ninetecn yoars old, disappeared” from lis kome near Freoman postoftice three weeks ago and his parents have so far failed to learn unything of him. Any information concerning him will bo thankfuily received, as his mother 1s very anxious for his retur S. B. Clapp, who was nominatea for sherift of Brown county by the republicans, has withdrawn from' the race and Walliam Hedges has been substituted for the place by the county central committoe. Hedges, hov over, has mysteriously disappeared, and his friends fear foul play. Ovor a week azo he sturted out on horseback with a warrant for a criminal and nothing has been heard from him since. He isa constable and a livery stable keeper in Ainsworth, Tow I 8. Dubuque county will have a stone pile for tramps. Tho Ottumwa Y. M. C. A. is raising money to erect u £25,000 buiding. James Martin, ono of the oldest residants of Cedar Kapids, died last week at La Crosse, Wis., aged soventy-eight year On a bet with a grocery man a Keokuk youth ate cighty-three bananas at one sit- ting, comprising one whole buneh of the it. W. Scott Prouty, of the Iowa City univer- sity, has been eiceted president of the Towa Collegiate association in plas {J, Tuttle, resig . Tho ne state contest will be held at Mt. Pleasant, Pebruary 7. . B. Allman, who was recontly injured’in the recont wreck on tuo Santa Fe road, has avrived at his home 1 Cedar Rapids, and says that the company imposed on him while he was lying in the hospital at Kansas City in a semi-conscious state by effecting a com- promise with him for $25, he waiving all claims against the company for injuries re- ceived. State Superintendent reports from the superintendents of schools in sixty of the nmelv-nine counties in the state. As far as received there is an increase in school popuiation of nearly six thousand eight hundred over thefreports of a year ago, and if the rate is kept up the increase in the entire state will reach nearly or quite ton thous The schools of tho state are re- ported to bo in splendid condition. Dr. George W. Holmes, physician-in-chiof to the crown prince of Persia, for many years a missionary in Persia, who, with his family, is spondiug tho summer . Cedar Rapds, has received a cablexram calling him back to that country, an emergency having avisen which required him at his post The doctor, with great reluctance, responded to the call, aunouncing that he itake the first stewmncr. His wifes th precludes the possibility of her return with him. Beyond the A brother of James G. Blaine is te: in the ludian schoolat Che swa, Of The Carson (Neb.) mint turned dollars ifor the first time in four week. A sheep owner has lost $5,000 worth of sheep in Sierra county, Califorma, owing to the animals eating wild turnips, The Boston Moantana Mining comp of Montana, will y anotter divided vember 20, which will make $335,000 paid this year, The Boise (1daho) Statesman says the in- crease in business handled in the Boise rail- road oftice up to date reaches 331§ per cent over last year. A gambler who refused to holp extiuguish afire n progress in Lake , Ore., was tarred and fe od and kicked out of town by a dozen res s, N. W. Wilson, ticlet agent of tho North- ern Pacific at Butte, Mont., lost 500 of the company's money playing faro and then went home and biew his braius out, Seven hundred and fifty cars of ore of 1,800 pounds each are hoisted from the Anaconda mine at Butte every twenty-four hours, The miae is 1,000 feet deep, with levels every 100 feet. A wild hog, snowy white, with tusks incues long and weighing 560 pounds, shot in Yuba connty, California recently pound of lead was found in the carcass, result of formor efforts of hunters to kill bim, The total vote of Washington was 58,443, The republican majority is 9,535, Olympia, for the capital, was 2,000 votes short. The majority against woman suffrage was 18,000, and against probibition 11,900, ‘The majority for the constitution was 2, The affidevit of 1,200 citizens of Montana, showing that lands claimed by the Northern Pacific wi mineral lunds, have been dis covered 1n the ofice of th weneral of the United 1 will be withheld pending investigation. ‘I'ne wife and son of Oscar S Butte, Nont,, have been arrested ou the charge of attempting to murder the man,” who is°a wealthy painter, Four sticks of giant powder were placed between mattresses of bis bed and o fuse attached to it and run out through @ hole wheh had been bored in the side of the house to an alley. The furniture in the room was torn 10 vicces and the side of the houso was blown out, but Stenberg was still alive when found, ching t silver rs last - Hallowe' Walter €. Nichols in Detrolt Fre: Press, When October groweth diun And the merry elves are scen, Dancing with a dash and vim, “Then's the time of Hailowe'en, Wheon the gruesome ghosts and witches Fly o'er gloomy roads and ditches. ‘Then the goblins force the moon From very fear to hide her sheen Behind the clouds. For elseshe’d T'o see the sights of Hallowe'en, When the gruesome ghosts and witches 1y o'er gloomy roads und ditches, voon Then sport tho sprites of land and sea; 13ut all the boys and girls terrene, Who mind not nurse's mild decree, Think every night's u Hallowe'en, When the grucsome ghosts and witches Fly o'er loomy roads and ditches. THE COMING RACE, To the West the Wave of Peoples Takes Ita Way. It was recontly contended in the col- umns of the Contemporary Review that wo are constantly boing reminded that the center of gravity of our planet has shiftod, and that the Moditerranean is fast becorhing an idle inland soa locked in & decaying continent. It has played 1ts part in the past of humanity, but the past is over and done, The seat of om- pire is again following the sun as it has always done, and 1s once more drifting ifto tho west, says the London Tablet. At the present hour the peoples of the United Kingdom and the ited States ropresent about one-fifteenth of humans ity, and govern one-third of the planct and one-fourth of its inhabitants. In the beginning of tho eightoenth cons tury this racoe numbered less than six million souls; at the beginning of the nincteenth century that incrensed to 20,500,000; at the prosent time they are about one hondred million. In the spaco of eighty years the English- spoaking peoples multipled five times ovor, and it is confidontly reckoned that within another handred yeaes they wall havo outnumbered all the other civile % ed peoples put togother. 1f the whole of the English-speaking populations of the world—multipliea as they ave likely to be atthe end of an- other contury—were to bo planted down in the terrifory of the United States and then doubled, the people would still not be so thick upon the ground as they are to-day in Belgium. While in Franco the popuiation 1s 180 to the square mile, in Germany 216, in England and Wales , in Belgium 481, in the United States, exclusive of Alaska, the popula- tion is only 16 per square mile. {m eed, tne 50,000,000 of the United States in 1850 might be put into Texas, and yet population would not be as dense as in Germany. Put the whole present tation of the United States invo Dakota, and the people would be less crowded than to-day in England and Wales. Our sharo of the carth’s surface, thero- fore, seems an amplo inheritance even for the overwhelming incrouse of vhe future. It is of more 1mmediate consequence to inquire whether this people, seattored over so many climes and so many lands, but bound by a common speech and common memories and common laws, will remain in any veal sense a homogencous race. The whole tendency of civilization seems to point to an answer in the affirmative, Incrensed facilities of communication and the always growing intarcourse ve- tween England and the peoples across the Atlantic and the Pacific will have theirinevitable effect in chocking any- thing like scparateness of speech or thourht. Already it is matter for com- mon observation thata phrase ora word which one season is noted as an “‘Amer- icanism’ the next is accepted by all as though it were a part of our inherited English speech. No doubt in Canada and the United St as in Australin and SouthAfrica,the dominant tyne will be affected by streams of immigration from other lands. But here also his- tory repeats itself, and as Saxon and Norman and Dane and Celt and Gaul helped by their fusion in the making of England, so the samc elements will con- tinue to be absorbed by the English- speaking peoplos over seas, SO S AUSTERE FUNERAL RITES, Laid On a Rough Pine Board, With Bricks For a Pillow. The funecral services of the Rev. Father Gabriel, C. P., ot the Order of Passionists, who was until recently con- neeted with St. ph’s Rotreat, Balti- more, took place yesterday morning in St. Michael’s mouastry in West Ho- boken, sa, he New York Sun. At an carly hour the remains were brought from the inner cloister, and were laid on a rough pine board in the main aisle of the church. The body was clothed in the coarse black haht of the order. On the breast were a cross and three nails, and around the waist was a leather girdle to which was attached a rosary of fiftecn decades. The sandals were removed fiom the foet. On the head, which rested on a little pile of bricks, ashes were sprinkled in the form of u cross. The solemn mass of requiem was chanted by the Rev. Father Philip Berk,C. P. Other mem- bers of the order were grouped ina semi-circle within the chancel rail. After the absolution had been pro- nounced and tho priests, students and congregation had taken a farewell look at the remains, six lay brothers ap- peaved from bebind the altar and ar- ranged themselves on either side of the bier. Atasignal from tho master of ceremonies they raised the body of the dead priest to their shoulders, and, fol- lowed by the clergy and attendants, rched to the tier of vaults in the basement of the church, where several sad mewmbers of the community al- dy lie. At the entrance to the vault D again laid on the ing sprinkled with holy water, they were put in a plain white coffin and’ slid into one of the opening The final absolution was then pronounced, the opening was cemented up and the name of the dead monlk was scratched with a trowel in the wet mort: ns were ground, and after The Liatest Musical Prodigy. Master Otto Hegner, thirteen years old, the latest musical prodigy to reach this country. arrived on the Fulda to- day, says a New York special, and a fow hours afterward gave an exhibition of his wonderful powers at the Victoria hotel. He played a Chopin waltz and a minuet by Padevewsky in o remarkably brilliant "and expressive manner. His simple and natural manners, as pleas- ing as his beautiful face, w carried even into his music. He played with all his heart, as naturally and joyously us another child might race about in a pavk. Ho is said to play with rare skill and unususl expression the prineipal works of Beethoven, Chopin, Mendels- sohn and other classic compose He first began to play on the piano when five yours old, and when sevenappearod in public in a charity coucert in Busle. During the next two years he played oz- casionnlly in Basle, Baden-Baden and Lucerne. Eighteen months ago, when he was a little over eleven years old, he appeared in concert in London, and won immediate renown. .. He afterward ap- penred in St. James’ hall, Albert hall, and other large London concert halls. - Telogra Money in England, Although & postal telegraph sysiem has been in operation in Kngland for $0 IMuny yonrs, i only during the past wmonth that facilities for telegraphin monoy have been afforded the country. Now in eighteen of the lavgest cities o money urder can be telegraphed from or paid at the postoffice, but already there are complaints that no saving is effected by the new system. Telograph- ing is such slow work in the old country, and the mail ser is 80 exceptionally rapid, that a letter often beats a toles gram in a fair race. Indian Hymn. Genoa (Neb,) Pipe of Peace. S0 me lub God wid inside heart, He fight for me, He take wy part, He suve my life before, God lub poor Indisn in de wood, 50 me lub God, and dat be good; Me'll praise Him two tunes more.