Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 18, 1889, Page 2

THE OMAHA DAILY BER:: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1889, The Shamoeful Buppression of the Oolored Vote. A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCESS. Unreasonable Quostions Asked For the Purpose of Oausing Delay— Negroes Stand in Line Through the Night and All Day. The Majority Problem Solved, WasmiNeTON, Nov. 14.—Staft Correspond- ence to Tk Bee: 1 spout the eloction day proper, that is from sun rise to sun set in Richmond, in Jackson ward, where it was supposcd there would be trouble if any- where. Jackson ward is the black ward. Governor Loe and the democratic managers had pretended that they feared ‘‘trouble’ in this ward and, therefore, the first fow straggling rays of sualight saw the city of Richmond hike & camp, a military ren- dezvous. Soldiers in uniform were hurry- ing to thoir armories where they wore kept all day ready at an fustant's dall. Special policemen were going to the police head- quarters, The city was literally alive with speoial policemen, and the twd democratic morning newspapers had taken very good care to unnounce comspicuously on Tuesday morning that every police- man and every special policeman were armed with 8 self-cocking five barrel ‘Smith & Wesson nevolvers, so that between the military with their Springfield’s and the policemen with their Smith & Wessou's, Richmond was determined to have a “quiet” election if they had to kill every negro in the city. Asa matter of fact the election was ominously quiet. A word of commendation right here be- causy it is deserved. The election liquor law is very stringent in Richmend; it pro- vides that wo liquor shall be sold from 11 o'clock in the evening preceding the elec- tion, until sunrise of the d y after election. There was whisky in Richmond of course, bat the law which closes the saloons wag rigorously observed, 80 that witn the natural exception of the special policeman almost everybody was sober. A party of us devoted the day to Jackson and Clay wards, the firsi being as I have said the black ward, and the other the ban~ ner white democratic ward. The scene in the two wards dif- for greatly. In the Clay precincts by mid- day the crowd around the voung bonths was small, made up mostly of ticket peddlers, ward captains and a few po nen. It was rare to find a dozen men 1n line waiting to Vote, and in the hours intervening before sunset thers wasno pussibility of any one who wanted to vote failing to have the op- portunity. ln every one of the Jackson pre- cinets at noon a lineof bluck voters stretched down the street and around the corner. In precinct three the number thus in waiting at 2 o’clock by actual count was and i the pther precincts it would not. vary much either ‘way. Dozens of policemen in uniform, doz- ©ns of others wearing badges bearing the legend, “special police,” and others without mark of authority, but cvidently known ad feared as “ofticers of the law,” lounged uround carelessly. Numbers of young eiti with square-cat sack c neighborhood, weari ‘badge with the word short-haired, invested tho on ' their conts a “‘democrat” in great colored letters. Every one knew what they were there for. One cau not help fecling a little sorry for the voters, Certainly if ever u lot of men wera quiet, and were scrupu- Jously anxious to remain quiet, the voters in Jackson ward wero those men, The polis opened o few minutes after 6—forty-two minutes after, I believe. But the samo rays of sun that saw the city of Kichmond arming itself looked down on the long lines of these Poor colored men in the cold. gray dawn waitiog to_vote. There they had camped Ainco the night. bafores they hud lit their fires and crowed around trying to keep warm. Iu many cases their wives or their friends had brought them their breakfast or there were no aristocratio ladies to serve them lunches, as was the case in the white wards. Allnight long they had been waiting, and many who had taken their places in line that night still stood in line at the following setting of the sun, when the polis were closed, Some men stood in live all day long. One old gray- haired darkey romained in line uotil 12 o'clock, then his son took his place, simply to sccure his turn for him in line. It was in- teresting to motice how the colored men were voled, and itis well to remomber in this connection that all the men inaide the polling booths were .democrats, A colored man would reach the window and offer to vote and a democratic challenger would pull outa written list and challenge the vote. The judges would lesurely question him., “What's your name(” Peter Robiason.” There is no Peter Robinson on the reg- dstry, but there is a Peter S. Kobinson, that can’t be you?’ “‘No, sah; my name is Peter Robinson and 1live at - The number of the street being given, o verification of the register ‘would show that this is the Poter Robinson awho was entitled to vote, but by failing to clain the middle initial 'his vote would be thrown out. Another case was a man named Johnson, “Do you spell it with & ‘¢’ inquired the iud.{la. The man replied: *I'm Jobnson what lives on Charity street. Why, jedge, you know me.” But the judge professed igno- rance of the voter’s identity, and as Johnson couldn’t tell whethier his namo was spelled ‘with a *'t"’ or not, his vote was rejected. +* In another case a negro, about whose name there was no question, was alleged to have no habitation, **You're down for No, 26 such and such a street. Where do you live, in that house?” 1 lives in that house, jedge, but it's No. £8; the house is Nos. 26 and 28."” But his vote was ruled out. "Tuese instances,n few among dozens which: ‘were observed by your correspondent, will ive & good idea of how the election machin- 'y was worked when a vole was challenged. ‘The challengers-would lean on their elbow: and argue the question with the judges, the Judges would leisurely listen to the arg anents, then discuss the question in all i mum. the clerks would take plenty of time verify the record, and in about half au hour a decision would be reached, nst the negro's right to vote. one precinot several well known men ‘who could not be successfully chullenged ‘were close to the voting window when it was discovered by the judges that the clerks had made an alleged mistuke.” It took half an hour to rectify this mistake during which the voting was suspended, While scenes like theso were goiug on in every precinct the negroes keptpationtly in line varying the monotony sometimes by singing plantation _melodies and showing an unfailling smount of nature. 'he rate of voting, as the democratio {-lperl stuted the next morning, was about wenty colored men an hour, and judging from Lhe specimens given above one can readily understand it, though it was almost ® wonder that-cven twenty colored men suc- ceeded in voting in that time, Vol in Clay ward was not attended by u{‘ dificulty in voting the democratic ticl n-‘i 4 'l‘&.n vleu m:‘ tl:v(u:blo n.h:::, and pro ©_entire Vol lny ward was polled {. 8ix hours after the polls were openc Here are the figures furnished by the ly-keopers in the two wards: In précinet of Clay ward at 11 o'clock that morning votes had been cast. In precinct ove of ~ackson ward at 11 oclock thav morning 39 votes had been cast. In precinet two of ‘ward at the samo hour votes had been cast, In precinct two of Jackson b4 colored bad voted. The voling was very quiet, ncts are ouly samples of usually " e 0 ave been 42,000 fair to whe judges ward to say that a man could that is—provided he was a whito claimed he " ved Lhcre aad suid he Ve wi o vote Iulgnnd uo dificulty at all. wen had been standing iu Line all night and all dwbu the white men could up from end of the line and iw- proceed o yote. Wherever nec: police would Jostle the colored man back until the white man had voted, At the Second precinet of Jackson ward & colored man was stopping at the door of the booth as the white lime* came up, the door was made expressly narrow o that two men conld not pass, a colored man jostled a white man, and beforo the colored man conld have struck the white man, had he ever haa the faintest suspicion of doing 8o hie was cought by the nape of the neck and shov out into the middle of the streot as from n catapault; he landed where the damago was least to his person, and im- medintely the rolice formed around him and promptly collared him again and hustled him off to the nearcst station before really ho knew what had happened to him, The spec- tators gathored around, too, and for a mo- ment 1t looked s thero might be trouble, But there was none. The principle had veen established that tne white man had precedent in voting and the colored man simply gave up. Pone: st incident occurred at the third precinct. It was late in the afternoon, and_there were probably somo three hun dred colored men waitiog to vote, A speciul officer pulled out his watch; ‘‘Seven minute past four,” said he, “‘and the sun sets at six minutes past five.” He cast his eye along the line. ‘The question only is how many can be shut out. A newspaper correspondent suggested to him, ““If you don’t take care you will shut out some of your white voters.” H——!tuat's so!" said be, He walked over to the white line, and & moment later the voting of the white line begen very briskly again. 1s it necossary to say that all these wkite men voted{ At the Second precinct a ward “‘superin- tendent” approached the sergeant in_charge of the white line; a big negro walked beside him. “What has he dooe?’ asked the sergeant. “Nothing,” answered the superintendent; “he bas come to vote the McKinney ticket, and I want you to make a place for him.” The colored man was put at the head of the white line, and not two minutes there- after his vote was polled. It makes all the difference in the world, in the Jackson ward (i you are a colored man), what ticket you are voting., At sunsct, when the polls were elosed and that farce of voting ended, the line of col- ored men waiting to vote was as long as it had been when the polls opened at sunrise. And yet McKinney, in all Virginia only re- ceived 42 000 majority ! Tt hiad beon expecied as the day wore on, and the policemen were congratulating thewm- solves on the general quictness of the elec- tion, that trouble would arise in the evening, when the result of the election would be an- nounced. Great bodies of policemen and specials were massed around the various newspaper ofices; but there was no trouble. Ivhad been quiet everywhere, Darkness came at night, but there was no trouble in Richmond. Prrry S. HEATH. Sgiase Starch grows sticky-—common powders have a vulgar glare, Pozzoni's is the only Compiexion powder 1it for use. THEY DON'T ENOW Wfl(\l‘ TO DO lowa’'s Party Managers Badly in Need ofan Idea. Des Moises, I, Nov. 17.—[Special Tele- gram to Tur Bre.]—The uppermost question in Towa now, is prohibition, Six weeks ago 10 one would havesupposed that republicans, as well as democrats, would be sittiug up nights at this time. to determine what is the best course for the party and best for the state, But the result of the election has by common consent been interpreted as mean- ing that prohibition mwust receive some con- sideration from the next legislature, Prohibition was not the only thing that caused republican defeat, but it was thi chief thing, It has also brought. the par verilously near to defeat several times in the last few years, &nd that fact is now being recognized. The extreme prohibitionists, of course, are unwilling to admit that prohibition had much 10 do with republican defeat this year, They put. a great deal of blame upon the railroads, and talk ubout the stuy-at-home vote. ‘Lhe difference beiween the vepublican vote last yeur and this year, was about 81,000. Baut there is always a large stay-at- home vote the year after every presidential election. ‘I'he difference between the re- publican vote in 1850 and 1881, was over 50,000, but in spite of that, the republicans elected their governor that year, (1881), by almost 60,000 plarality. A good many republicans did not vote at this late election, because they did not want o vote a democratic ticket, and they would not vote the republican ticket and for pro- hibition any loager. Put the question now is, what is golug to be done! Republicans are asking it. Demo- crats are asking 1t Probibitionists and anti-prohibitionists are asking it. Each side is walving to see whut the other will propose. New things can safely be predicted, what- over change is made in tho present law, it will not be a very radical change, and sec- ond, whatever chauge is made, will be the result of a compromise, Neither party is in @ position to force through unaided, any very radical chenge in the law. The parties are too nearly balanced for that. The demo- crats themselves are not agreed as to what they want. ‘There are some democrats, 1o or three, members of tho next house, who are personally very strong prohibitionists. They will not consent even to & democratic wcasure thut compietely surrenders every- thing. They will likely stand for some com- vreniise such as the republican majority may acoept, retaining all that 18 good 1n the pres- ent law and_making such udditions 5to it as will adapt it to the localities where prohi- bition is now a dead letter. No one1s prepared to present in detail justyet, & plan ready made, but there s much favorable talk of some such course as this: It is proposed to let probibition remain as the law of the state; let 1t be the settled policy of lowa in treating the liquor ques- tion, so.far as and wlmruvurpuhlic sentiment will sustain and enforce it. Then provide, in addition, that any county where a larger majority of the peoplo do not want prohibi- tion und will not enforce it that such county way* upon a petition of a mwajority of its citi- zens, have a special election once in Lwo or three years to vote upon the question of license, Then 1f a large majority, say- two- thirds or threo-fourths, declare in favor of a license, a license whose amount has already been fixed by the legislature may be imposed to continue for the period agreed upon. The dozen or fifteen counties that do not enforce prohibition, that o not want it, 8o far as public” sentiment can be ascertaioed, would, if permssion were granted, vote for a license and recaive the revenue which the saloons would be compelled to pay. Ll AN IMPORTANT DEAL. The Kort Worth Consolidated With the Union Pacific, One of the most important deals in the his- tory of western railroads was consummated on Saturday by which the Union Pacitic branch lines in Colorado and the Denver, Texas & Fort Worth lines have been consoli- wated. The deal has been pending for a long time and has been wnnounced in Tue Bee several times. Last week General Dodge, of the Fort Worth lines, and the management of th Unpion Pacific. held their meeting and th gorms of the consolidation were written ou and accepted by both partics. While . this action has yot to be ratified by the stock- holders of both lines, there is no doubt but what snch aotion will be taken. Third Vice President Kimball, of the Union Pacific asserted last night that be had heard nothing of the culmination of the af- fair, but was free to admit that perhaps such action had been taken. J. 8. Cameron, as- staut to President Adams, was seen at the iliard, and vdmitted the matter hud gone @s tar as has been stated. The Fort Worth road runs from Denver to Forv Warth, Tex: and is 801 miles in length. Its'acquisition will give the Union Paaific direct connection with the south, and will be a great adaition to the system, e L Nervous debility, poor memory, difidence, sexual weakness, mmplu’ oured by Dr. Miles’ Nervine. Samples free at Kuhn & Co.’s 15th and Douglas. DIKD, STEWART—Allen I, son of Martha J, Stewart, died at his home Sunday morn- ing at § 8. m, Fuaeral will take place Monday afternoon 8L 2 p. . from his home, 1114 North Seven- teenth street, Friends are Invited, FROM OMAHA TO PORTLAND. Soll Which Resembles That of the Platte Valley. LONG STRETCHES OF SAGE BRUSH One of the Pecaliarities of the Coun- try Between the Missouri and the Pacific Const—Throngh Many Prosperous Uities. The Trans mpire, PoRTLAND, Ore., M peoial to Tne B, |—One of the longest and most interest- ing trips is from the Missouri river to this city. Leaving Omaha in the evoning on the Union Pacific, dayhght finds oneat North Platte, 1n the midst. of the great stock ranges of Nebraska, Passing Cheyenue in the ofternoon, and early next morping the train is at Green rivef, ready to enter the “unknown' on the Oregon Short line, rom Green river the landscape varies, Past Granger the soil in spots is gravelly and sago brush scarce. A tew miles bevond sheep aro seon grazing on the mountains, with running water, and eattle in the dis- ance. The soil is reddish and the moun- tains have that tint, PossiBly this is owing to the clevation—about 6,600 feet—until Fossil station is passed. Hero the country chanzes, wire fences are numerous and one is remindea of the Plaite valley, were it not for the sage brush, But a grateful sight o the cye was a lady at the station with o bas- ket of fresh cut flowers.@ As the train nears Cokeville the line rans through a valloy of remarkable beauty., Cattle and horses are numerous. Leaving Cokeville, the train. passes tho red mountains 1n a lightsnow storm. Here there is a big stock range and plenty of new ranch houses. Soon we are in a highly cul- tivated country, with cattle and logs graz- ing, and the soii is black as coal in many places. Kor sometime the train has peen running through the Bear River valley—a beautiful tract as level as a floor, with mountains on either side, and the river at our feet, The signs of culttivation increase and soun Montpeher is reached. It is o pretty town of about 1,500 people in this beautiful valley. The population is increas- ing, as new houses are visible ineyery direc- tion. The vulley is irrigated. Cattle and horses are numerous and in good condition, and the few hogs and pigs are fat and sleek, The sage brush has disappeared and well defined farias with their wire fences have taken its place. It1s a division'station, and one of the neatest towns on the Short Line, In the summer season it must be a veritable gem of the valley. This is the nearest point on the line to Bear lake, about ten miles away—a flue farming region. In this vicinity wild ducks are numerous and- very tame, and can be seen by dozens in a flock swimming in the river. From this point the country preseats the usual aspect of stock ranges, farms, green grass, sage brush aud clear running streums until the train reaches Soda Springs. This is one of the most impbrtant places on the tine. It can and will become a beautiful pleasure resort. It has a handsome frame hotel, but this is not open at this season. Bear riveris less than a mile away, pre- senting an wviting field for hunters, ~in the are eighteen miles of fine land awaiting the touch of the irrigator, on which almost auy crop can be raised, The town has twenty different springs around 1t, one of wnich is the ocelebrated lIoanah, whose waters are drank alike in Omaba, Kansas City, Leadville, Denver, Butte, Sult Lale, Helena, San Francisco, Spokane, Portland and pretty much everywhere west of the Missour: river. Another is the Formation spring, 50 named on account of its daily changing its form, and spreading over €50 acres. Swan lake 18 also a natural couriosity on the side of the mountain, bein parrow et the top and wide at the bbttom. Soda Springs 18 one of the principal stations for the ship- ments of live stock on the Short Line, about one-fourth going to South Omaba and the balance to Portland, Butte and Chicago. It is also a great place for feeders, and tho receipts and shipments of sheep are very large. It basa population of 500 péople, who are engaged 1n various pursuits, The oleva- tion 18 nearly 5,800 feet, making 1t difficult to raise wheat on account of the frosts in the spring. ‘West of Pocatello, the first important sta- tion is the American Falls, at the crosslag of Snake river. The falls are a behutiful cas- cade, and tho traveler has a fine view, as the train passes quite near, The station is in the midst of a vast plain vovered with grass and sago brush. This is is the far-famed Snake river valley, containing about 6,000,000 acres of land susceptible of the hizhest eultivation when irrigated, exceeding the arable lund of Egypt by 1,000,000,000 acres. As that coun- try sustains greet cities like Calro, and a population -of 6,000,000, with exports amounting annually to £91,000,000 pounds of cotton, 106,000,000 pounds of sugar, raising 1,608,800 farm animals, and every cereal, fruit, and vegetable under the sun, iv is not diMicult to perceive the possibilities of this great valley when fully occupied and possessed by man, The station is aiso the seat of the great stock ranges of Idano, and here colonies can be plan and maintamned on the most extensive scale. - As in the case of the country north and east of Pacatello, the vrend of business is towards Salt Lake. Shoshone will became an importaut dis- tributing center for the Woocd river country, central ldaho, and as far north as the Utah and Nevada line, It is naturally situated for a good shipping point, Its live stock shipments aré already large, and once the Snake riveris bridged near the greac falls it will become an attractive resort fortour- ists A surprise met me Lere in a ploasant evening with our old Omaha friend, Homer Stull, who hud much to inquire about former friends, Mr. Stull lives at Mountain Home, but keeps his law oMce here. The passing years touch him lightly, and though his hair is a little grayer he is the same as in the days of yore, when so many in Omaha knew und loved him, as a gentle geotieman—o true and noble wan in every sense, Nampa is an ambitious little place of 250 people. It is digging au irrigating canal, and hopes to rival Boise in controlling the trade of thet beautiful valley, already celebrated for its fruit. Around Huntington the country is mount- winous, but the Snake river valley is close by, ‘This point presents great railroad possi- bilities in future, and as it is the terminus ot the Oregon Short line, we will leave it for the Oregon Railway & Nuvigation company, 8nd take a look at Baker City., This s one of the most prominent places east of Port- land, Tt is at the foot of the mountains, in the valley. Itisfull of mew -houses. The ommlr{ is irrigated and highly cultivated, ‘The soil is very black and must -be wonder- fully broductive, It contains 8,000 people, churches and schools, and presonte every ap- pearance of thrift and enterprise, Wator is ere in great abundance, und the valleyis filled with stock. La Grande 1a aunother beautiful location, similar to Baker City, with the same characteristics and resources, Crossing the B3lue mountains the scenery grand. East of Kamela there are fertile valleys, and cattle and horses are numerous. The grass and sage bush grow in the same places, and there are running streams. In the mountains the lofty ranges are covered with timber sufficient to furnish lumber of all kinds for norations. The railroad oompun}' uses i1t for ties, and others, appar- entl or cordwood, There are extensive lumber camps in_soveral rlm along the road in Eastern Oregon. In this section of the state the civilization looks old, log cab- s and rail fences are wumorous, t country does not present the thrifty, mod- ern apbearance noticeable in Nobraska. A few more years will change this when the m»le becoma better eaintod with the tion. ‘This has alr occurred in Salt Lake City and Northern Utah. Pendlcton is on an Inaian resorvation, in every way. is a passenger division lmlon}:zt between 2,000 and 8,000 people. It is well bully and has 8 solid look with its school house, churches, business blocks and ndustrial establishments, Passengers change cars here for Spokaune and the north- east, 1o the great wheat fields, It Is alréady assuming 1mportance as a transfer poiat for freight and ers on account of the ex- cltement at kane, and the n?ld growth of that city, - Pendléton is 1,070 feet above the Pacific ocean, but in @ run of forty-four oet, At this pol the Columbis sad follow 1t until e come to Portland. Tho land 1-&1 ing and covered with sago brush. Ba 'rom the river there is a good deal of wheat and live stock, but a scarcity of water. Still there are millions of gallons 1n the river, it seemingly no attempt to irrigato the gonntry along its banks, al- though tho #otion and station houses have gardens around them--a gratofol contrast to those in Wyoming, Soon after leaving the Junction thechkght came down, shutting out the view, and a sight of the city of the Dalles by ‘daylight was unatiamable. It is a place of four thousand to five thousand peo- ple, and well"supplied with hotels and electric lightd, and the wonderful cascades of the Colymbia forw an abundant water power. Hetb Ul sage brush’ country ends, and for the restof the way we pass through a succession of timber, fruit and truck farms into the city of Portland. . F. Trsn, st . A REVOLUTIONARY BOMB, 1t Explodes in a Boy's Bonfire After More Than 100 Yoars. An explosion took vlace in the back yard of George W. H. Andrews at 100 Ashford strect, Brooklyn, about dusic on Saturday while Mr. Andrews was at dinner, snys n New York special. Mr, Androws’ 10-year-old son, Freddie, brought home o rusty iron ball about four -inches in diam- eter about a year ago, Ho and o companion found the ball im- bedded in the ground in a field near the New Lots road,* His father examined it at the timeand concluded it was the end of a hammer used in hamwer throwing contests. There was a circular hole in the ball about an inch and a halfin diameter, but this had been plugged up with lead. The children in the neigh- borhood played with the ball occasion- ally during the year. On Saturday afternoon Freddic swept up the fallen leaves and other debris in the back yard and made a bonfire of the mass, with the iron ball in the center of it. The fire burned slowly in the rain at first, but afterwards it began to flare up, and Mr. .Andrews suggested that the flames were becoming dune gorous. The boy then took a dfpper and proceeded to drench the burning mass with water. While he was doing this the explosion occurred. It rattled the dishes on the table and alarmed the neighborhood for blocks around. Mrs. Andrews ran to the door and met Freddie screaming on his way to the house. The child’s face was blackened and burned with powder, and the back of one of his hands was torn and bleed- ing. An investigation showed that the iron ball, which he now believes was an old bombshell of the revolutionary period, had exploded. A piece of the shell od through a rear window into the house of Lis neighbor, Mr. Bannon, tearing away a part of the sash, injur- ing the plaster of thé opposite wall and 1mbedding itself in the studding. To- day Mr. Andrews picked out of the fouce and offt:the ground seventeen leaden builets, each about threc-quar- ters of an intlin diameter, with which the shell had bgen filled. The buliets had evidently, heen cast in an old-fash- ioned hand mould. The boy was not seriously hurt; and nobody elso was hurt at all. (fae gl e New etchibgs received at Hospa's. s iy MONKEYS as MINERS., How They ;Are Used in the South Carolina Gold Digeings. Some time’ ago a friend told me that monkeys werfs employed in the gold diggings of §puth Carolina, says tho PhiludelphiaHianes. He wove for me a very intevésting account of their lubors and:oftheir value as Ilaborers. Captain B, Mewz, who was born in Yankeeland, tells the story of the queer Little animals who work for him in the mines. He is a typical New Englander from Vermont, and served in the union army. and settled in the south after the war. His mines are situated near Chesterfield, in South Carolina, about twenty miles off the railroad. *I have twenty-four monkeys.” said he, ‘“‘em- ployed about my mines. ‘They do the work of seven able-bodied men, and it is no reflection upon the human laborers to say that they do a class of work & man cannot do as well in many instances they lend valu- able aid where a man would be useless. They gather up iho small picces of quartz that would be passed uunoticed by the workingmen, and pile them up in lithle heaps that can be easily gath- ered up in a shovel and thrown into the mill, Tuo%, are exceedingly adept at catching the littlo particles, and their sharp eyes never escape the very things that the human eye would pass over. ““When I went to diggng gold T had two monkeys that were exceedingly in- teresting pots. They were constantly Iollowing me about the mines, and one day I noticed that they were busily en- gaged in gathering up little bits of uartz and arranging them in piles, They seemed to enjoy the labor very civm, and would go to the mines every morning and work there during the day, My two pots had not worked very long. before I decided to procure more. So I immediately imported a number, and now have iwo dozen working daily in and about the mines. Itis exccedingly interest- ing to watch my two pev monkeys teach the new ones how to work, and stranger still to see how readily the nowcomers take to it. Strange to say, they control themselves. They work as they please, sometimes going down into the mines when they have cleaned up all the debris on the outside. They live and work together without quarreling any more than men do. They are quite methodical in their habits and goto work and quit like true workingmen. They need some care and I have & col- ored man to superintend them. He feeds them and looks well after their comfort. They have their meals regu- larly and eat mch the same character of food as human®beings do. Corn bread is & great fatorite with them. Theéy clean up about the mines, foll- low the wheelbarrows and carts use in mining, and Hluk up every- thing that ,falls o along the way. No one who has not seen them can even imaging the wonderful intelli- gence they dip;{lgy and the neatness and cleanliness with which they perform thewr work, "Nothing escapes them. Every little pirflble is picked up and cared for. Théy' fro down into the mines and come out'ils the pleaso. They are friendly with thié‘workingmen employed there, but are! exceedingly shy with strangers, "Dheyare most excellent de- tectives, and mooworkman can get on good enoughdeems with them to carry away a piece of quartz, The men fre- auently attempt it just for sport, to see the monkeys getaftor them and chatter until they put down whatever they may have in their hands. It is strange to see how they will discriminate between the tovls used by the workingmen anda piece of quartz. They only keep their ey on and make a fuss about what they must recognize asmy property. I would not part with them, because I do not know their place could be luPplled. Certainly not by human 'D:l_ln(l.' Notice is hereby given that all the book accounts of J." W, Walker have been assigned to the undersigned. All persons are cautioned ggainet making fl\yment of such accounts except to R. . Davis or his authorized agents. T R. I’;‘ DAvis, Omaha, Nob., November 14, 1889, AMONG THE BOOK" BUILDERS. Some Notable Volumoes From Dis- tinguished Authors. o PAGANISM VS CHRISTIANITY. The Dangers Which Lurk in the Path- way of tho American Republic, and How Thoy May Bo Avoided—FKiction, Eto. Cardinnl Gibhons' Book. “Our Christian Horitage" is tho title of n remarkable book from the pen of Cardinal Gibbons, the distinguised primate of the Catholic church 1n America. It is remark- able bocause it s not distinctly secturian, buta broad; forceful and eloguent plea for the clevating principles of christianity, In- deed, the cardinal's arguments against the godless tenaenoy of the timoes can be vn- dorsed and omployed by all creeds and de- nominations, and many of the conclusions reachied have been advocated by Protestants, Naturally & = book coming from such a high source has attracted widespread attention, and will occa- siod comment as well as controversy. Yet the views therein exbressed on the leading questions of our time are, familiar to tho peo- ple of this county They have been iterated by the cardinal on several occasions durivg the past ten years. A broad liberality, an ardent love of liberty and a christian respect for the opinions of different creeds is o marked feature of every chupter, The key- note of the book is religion, pure homes, in- dustry, sobrioty, law and erder, better edu- cational facilities and ap uncorrapted baliot. In the closing chapter on the dignity of labor the cardinal thus addresses the labor- ing wan: “*Cultivate a spirit of industry, without which all tiie appliances of organized labor ure unavailing, A life of patient industry is sure to be blessed with o competence, if it is oot crowned with abundant remuneration, The majority of vur leading men of wealth aro indebtod for their fortunes to their own industry. Take an active, personal, consci- entious interest 1n the business of your em. ployer, and the more you contribute to his Buccess the better can he afford to compen- sate you for yourservices, He will be im- pelied to requite you with a generous hand. “‘Foster habits of economy and self demal. No matter how modest your income may be, always live under it, You will thus protect your liberty and busiuess integrity, and guard yourself against the slavery of debt, *‘While honestly striving to better your coudition, be content with your station in life, and do not yield to an mordinate desire of ‘abandoning ~ your present occupation for is popularly regarded asa more at- vocation. A feverish ambition to accumulate a fortune, which may be called our national distemper, is incompatible with p of mind. “Sobricty will bo an angel of tranquility to yourself and fumily. = “‘Above all let relizion be the queen of your household. When the evening of life has come and your earthly labors are drawing to a close, it will cheer you witn the bright prospect of an eternal sabbath. Referring to the universal tendency to- ward combination on the part of corpora- tions, the cardinal says: “It is quite nutural that mechanics and laborers should follow their example. It would be as unjust to denv to workingmen the right to band to- gether because the abuses 1ncident o such combinations as to witnhold the same from capitalists because they sometimes unwar- rantably try to crush or absorb weaker rivals,” Public recognition among us of the right to organize, amplies a confidence in the intelligence and honesty of the masses; it affords them an opvortunity of training thgmselves in the school of self-government, and in the art of self-discipline. It takes away from them every excuse and protext for the formation of dangerous societies; it inspires them with a sense of their responsibility as citizens, and with a laudable desire of merit- 1ng the approval of their fellow citizens, *God farbid that the vprerogatives which I am maintaining for the working classes should be construed as implymg the slightest invasion of the rights and sutonomy of em- ployers. There should and need not be an; conflict between labor and capital, since both are necessary for the public good, and the one depends on the co-operation of the other. A conflict belween tho employer and the employed is as unreasonable and as hurtful to the social body as a war between the head and the hands would be to the physical body.” “Whosoeyer tries to sow discord between the capitalist and the laborer is an enemy of social order. Every measure should there- fore be discountenanced that sustains the ono at the expense of the other.”” The cardinal vigorously denounces grasping corporations wherein personality is overshadowed and in- dividual responsibility lesscned. *Lhey compel operatives to work for starving wages, especially in mining districts and factories, where protests have but a feeble echo and are easly stifled by intimi- dation. In many places the = corpora- tions are said ‘to have a monop- oly of the stores of supply, where exorbitant pripes aro charged for the neves- saries of life; bills ara contracted which the ‘workmen are unable to pay from their scanty wages, and their forced insolvency places them entirely at the mercy of their task- masters.” Strikea he considers at best a questionable remedy for laporer's grioy- ances, boycotting an assault on liberty aod a violation of justice, and arbitration the one safe road to peace and harmony, Of the dangers which threaten our Ameri- can clvilization, the cardinal says: *If our government and legjslation are permeated and fortified by divine reveiation and christian traditions, we can not ignore the fact that they are assailed by unbelief, im- picty and socialism, We are confronted by five great evils—Mormonism and divorce, -which strike at the root of che family and society; an unperfoct and vicious system of education, which undermines the religion of our youth; the disecration,of the christiun Snbbath, which tends to obliterate in our adult population the salutary fear of God and the homage that we owe him; the gross and systematic eloction frauds; ana lastly, the unreasonable delay in carrying into effect the sentences of our criminal vourts and the numerous subterfuges by which criminals evade the exccution of the law., Our in- satiable greed for gain, the co-existence of colossal wealth with abject poverty, the ex- travagance of the rich, the discontent of the poor, our eagcr und impetuous rushing through life and every other moral and so- clal delinquency may be traced to one of the five radical vices enumerated above, + * * ““The ballot 18 the expression of the will of @ free peoplo, and its purity should be guarded with the utmost jealousy, The re- _puated cry of ‘election frauds' is one full of warning., Frauds are nwmrwd. and too often successfully upon the ballot. It is the gravest mennce to free institutions. De- fective registration laws and negligence to secure the ballot box by careful legal enact- ments in part account for such a state of affairs. A prime cause is that the better class of citizens 80 often stand sloof from practical politics and the conduct of cam- paigns, ‘The violation of the purity of the sballot box leads directly to the point where there is sither loss of liberty or revolution to restore it.” Publisped by Murpn_y & Co., Baltimore, “Trayels und Adyehitlires of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger.” By Iogersoll Lockwood; ilustrated by G @ Wharton Edwards. A wierd, won- derful story of the Munchausen ovder, re- counting the birth of the baron in Germany, his abnormal head development, and his crav.ng for new countries w conquer, with Bulger, a ‘bufldog of ferocious grin. The blithe an: xlpy baron floats over the coun- iry, captivates monarchs and finally lands in China, where Lo sets up @ throne of his own ‘and rules 0 & ripe old age. Publisted by Lee & s:xupud, oston. “Polish Blood.” A fomance. By Nataly Baroness von Eschstruth: translated by Cora Loujsa Turner. This is one of the first books of A popular German authoress to ap- pear in Anerica. ‘The baroness is the daugn- ter of au officer of high rank in the German army; her early life was speat amid tie gay- ety of military life in Hesse castle, and she 'is now, at the age of 27, a maid of honor at the Berlin court. Beiug intimately acquainted with court and military ~ life, she Woaves o strong story of characters drawn from both, spiced with the fire of Polish gontlomen smarting under tyranny of a overnment which drove them into exile, 'he story is distinguished by sharp delinoa- tion of character, bright humor and elevat. ing sentiment. Puolished by John B, Alden, New York, Thera is no lack of mental provender, good, bad and and indiffercnt, spread out in o delugo of chead paper coverod books issued by tho various publishing houses, "Thoy are made to suit_all tastes and char acters, aud appeal strongly to the pocket- book. Tho John W. 1 company, of Now ork, furnish o of_“A Woman of Te- y Crawford Jackson; tho ox- perienco of YA Social Diplomat,” by Flora Adams Darling tho triale and triumphs of “A Maid of Marblehead,” by Kate Tannatt Woods, and “The Biossom and the kruit," by bel Collins, four novels of more than ave merit. The press of G. W, Dillingham, New York, is ono of the most prolific in the country in grinding the cheaper class of literature, without regard to quality Among the latest are "The alo_of Mrs. Adral,” by F'. H, Castellow; “An Forie He and She,” by Alan o; “ICathie,” by Anna Oldtield Wiges; 'he Now Litany,” a burlesque on current evils; “A Lawyer's Don'ts, by Ingersoll Lockwood, and n bulky volume calculated to stpplant the family doctor and make every pantry a medicine chest. In addition to these, there is “A Blind Bargain,” by RoWort Howe Fletcher, pub- lished by Belford, Clarke & Co., Chicago; arth Born,” a wierd story of a search for Mothor Ev published by the New York Press Bureau, and “That Other Woman," published by I Lowoll, New York, o Gt Samples of Dr. Miles' Restorative Norviuo at Kuhn & Co’s 15th and Douglas, cures headache, nervousness, sleeplessness, neu- ralgfa, fits, eto. bl AMUSEMENTS. vell Sunday night performances at the Grand opera house are growing in popularit; y rapidly. The place has a seating capacity of 1,800 2nd last night standing room was sold, Since the house was opened there has not been more than one or two as lareo audiences in it. Charles Hoyt's old comedy, “A Bunch of Keys,” was the attraction, though no one in this section ever before heard of the com- pany that 1s now playing it. William Daniels, George Welch and Miss Louise Raymond are the names_of the three principals, doimng Snaggs, Grimes and Teddy, tho leading parts. Mr. Danicls gave a very good per- formance as Snages, aud Miss Raymond's Teddy piensed everybody, but Grimes failed to create much admiration. Mr. Welch's conception of the character, after one has seen Eugene Canfield in it, 18 rather weak und uninteresting. The only other member of the cast deserving meation is Miss Adelo Reno, a clever young lady who played tho part of Rose Keys. She has a pleasing voico and very good action. The “‘Nutural Gas’ company ocoupied a box. A. L. Lipman and Jimmy Maftit, of the “‘Burglar” company, were also spectators, ki SHEL AR The Denver State lowtery company wants agents. Tickets 50 conts. Ad- dress A. C. Ross & Co., Denver, Colo. same bl New Sidewalks, The fellowing sidewalks have been ordered laid before the 30th day of November, under penalty of being laid by the city and the cost assessed against tho abutting property : West side of Twenuy-cighth street from Wn’olwnnu avenue to Shirley street, six feet wide, Both sides of Thirty-first street from Pa- cific street to Leavenworth street, six feet South side of Hickory from Tiwenty-ninth street feet east, six feer wide. South side of Piue street, between Twenty- sixth and Twenty-seventh streets, in front of lots 8, 9 and 10, block 8, Shull’s secoud ad- dition, six foor wide. West side of Lowe avenue from Farnam street to Howard street, six feat wide. Kast side of Saunders or Twenty-fourth strect from Pinkney to Pratt streets, six feet wide, Kast sido of Thirteenth strset, between Pacific and Pierce streets, 1s only a piece of ten-foot square walk, South side of California street between Thirtieth and Thirty-second, six feot wide. Twenty-fourth street, from Blondo to Grant, both sides, six feet wide; and on Bloudo from Twenlty-cighth to Twenty-ninth streets, boti sides. Flast side of Pleasant street, from the north curb of Cuming streot to Paul street, four feet wide. Also a four-foot walk on the west: side of Pleasant. street, from Paul street to Hamilton street. Twenty-first street, from Leavenworth south to Brige's place, construct and repair both sides, Southwest corner of Seventeenth and Chi- cago streets, repairs. Northwest corner ot Seventeenth and Chi- 4;}1;,'0 streets, fill out the walks to the curb ino, Poppleton and Thirty-first streets, east side, repairs, Both sides of Towo avenue. from Cuming street to Hamilton street, six feet wide. S Cnshman's Mentho inhaler cures catareh, headache, neuralgia, asthma, hay fever. “Urial free av your drug Price 50 cents. Benefit, There will be a benefit at the Gate City Athletic club rooms this evening for Jack Davis, the Denver heavyweight, who has contributed much toward the success of the club’s recent events. An interesting and varied programme has been prepared for the occasion, and all adwmirers of manly sports are cordially 1avited to attend. Visiting Wheelmen. A delegation of the Lincoln wheel club were the guests of the Omaha Wheel club yesterday. They made the run a-wheel and experienced no end of difeulty in getting through, owing to the unfavorable condition of the roads. Messrs. Peabody. Conner, Fraucisco, Bacon, Persons, Head, Emerson, Suell and Perigo, of the local club, rode to Springheld to meet the visitors and escort them to the city. Once hera they were handsomely eutertained at the club rooms on Doage stroet, and, much refreshed, left for home in the evening. st Insist on baving the genuine Red Cross Cough Drops, 5 cts. a box, Sola everywhere, e THE EVILS OF SPANKING, Cufing Children Frequently Fraught With Most Serions Results, While children are much more in- dulged and considered in this age than ever before, they are still the victinis of & barbarous custom. [ refer to the practice of whipping as pun- ishment. writes Marie Merrick in the Ladies’ Home Journal. Though it has lowg since been largelv abolished 1n our own and other countries as & most in- human mode of punishment, little chil- dren are still beaten, cuffed and spanked by fond (?) parents in a most unconscionable manner. “Spare the rod and spoil the child” was intended in my estimation in a urely mataphorical sense. It is pretty generally conceded that cufling children on the head or ears 18 frequently fraught with the most seri- ous results—many cases of deafness and even brain disease having arvisen [from this practice, Evils quite as grave, [ am assured by a lady physician of ex- tensive practice, result from the pun- ishment known as “'spanking.” Blows given with more or less severity and greater or less frequency in the region of the spine will, she contends, cause serious hrain or spinal trouble, Moreoverr, the state of the brain and nervous system have a great effect upon the disposition, and the shock which may possibly cure one fault may, by disordering und deranging the nervous system, produce faults of a much graver and more complicated nature. It may cousole some people to know that the physician referred to does not regard switching as open to the the game objections as spanking, and let the followers of Solomon’s precept sce that they literally use the rod and not the humi, and thus do as littie harm as ible. Would that all parents could P eonvinced of the ovil of the wholo practice. p THEY FAVOR HIGH LICENSE, A Monster Meeting of the Catholies of Ealtimore. CARDINAL GIBBONS PRESIDES, Hesolved Thar High License s the Only Peaceful and Practioal ethod of Settling the Vexed Liquor Question. A Remarkable Gathering. Bavrivone, Nov. 17.<~An immense mass meeting, under the auspices of the Cathiolios, was held at the Academy of Musio to-night for the purpose of advancing the high license movement. Tho meeting was pre- wrided over by Cardinal Gibbons, and upon the stage wero Archoishoos Ireland, of St Paul; Elder, of Cincinnati; Bishop Virtue, of England; Monsignor McColgin, and o largo namber of vriest In ovening the meeting, Cardinal Gibbons sad: "L appear belore you to night not only a8 o cliurchman, but as feliow anxions v. 1 heliove the cau: ocate will en- hanco our welfare. It will bo the means of bettering the condition of the peoplo and laborers. I'ne movement wo are striving for is for the laboring man's benefit, and it must and shall be successful."! Speechies - wero made by Nugent, of Engiand, and Rev of Wisconsing Archbishop Tre Paual, and Bishop Keane, The resolutions were adopted : ‘“‘Resolved, That the ciergy and laity of Baltimore recognizing the giwantic evils of mtemperance, imperiing the interests and well boing of the state and socicty and vast- ing about for the means which will diminish the evil and pave the way to complete moral restoration, believe they seo this remedy in high license have been backward in uniting in the efforts of many distin- guisned fellow-citizens in the holy canse it was not from ignorance of the great danger, nor from luck of a desire to avert fit, but solely from their inability to compro- mise the sncred interests of truth by accopt- ing certain positions which are somotimas found fo Dbe concomitants of such move- ments under non-Catholic auspices, It 18 resolved that high liceuse is the only peace- ful means of exterminuting the vice and crimes of which drun kenuess is the fruitful source. Tha license should be put so bigh s to wake it practically prohibitory ns re- gards the multitude of low suloons, Certain restrictions should be enacted as to the time and place of sale. The number of saloons in any onc radius should be Jimited by statute and should not be allowed near churches or schools. Licenses should be given only to persons of tried characte Rev. James Dr. Cloary, nd, of St following seisiat > Watch the box, buy the genuinc Red Cross Cough Drops, 5 cents per box. THE FRENCH INVASION. Will They Get tho Upper Hand in This Country. Cbharles Thibault, a prominent French Canadian, in a speech here to-night on the progress of the French Canadian race, referved to their growing power in the United State; n Montreal dispatch to the New Yory Sun. He said the French Canadians were God’s peo- ple, that it was the design of Providence that they should build up n new France upon this continent. The Irench Can- i were in the majority in five n New England. There they had to combat much prejudice and overcome many obstacles, yeot they had trinmphed, and had foreed the other races to acknowledge their nationalicy. He predicted that they would be able to celebrate the hun- dredth anniversary of the St. Jehn Baptiste society in Boston, which woutd then be French-Canadian and the cen- ter of a French-Canadian nation. New England would have become New France. The Yankees were leaving for the west, and their vlaces are being filled by French Canadians, whoin half a century will be in an absolute majority in New England. The French Cana- dians would also control Catholicism in the United States. Protestantism in the United States to-day wasa negation, a house divided against itsel, which must fall. Catholicism was growing all the time i a solid body, which would soon control the continent. ‘When a Erench Canadian passed the influence of his race sproad like oil upon the sea. There were many places in the states termed by the Americans ‘Little Canada.” They wore the nuc- leus of a grent French Canadian nation which would stretch from the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic and be bounded only by Hudson Bay. The The 1rish Catholics had, failed to con- trol the French Canhdians in Burling- ton, and they would likewise fail every- where else. The French would yet the dominant race on this continent.” Thibault simply expresses the senti- ments of a goo(} many of the people. el Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children teething relieves the child from pain. 25 cents a bottle. ———— She Jined Him., Judge Brisbin at an early date was coming to St. Paul by stage from Hast- ings, says the St. Paul Pioneer Press. It was raw and cold and the judge was aching to open a bottle of champagne. which a thoughtful friend had placed in his valise at the moment of parting. The obstacle was the presence of a lady on the opposite seat whom the gallant. judge did not wish to shock, and who chanced to be Mrs. John Grey Swiss- helm. At length the longing for a “little drop of something cheering’ became too strong. and, leaning over, he suggested:. ‘‘Madame, I have a bottle of chamnagne 10 my valise, Itis 80 cold and chiily, won’t you have a glass with me?” **You can’t draw the cork too quick for me,” was Mrs. Swisshelm’s prompt encouragement, ‘‘and then I have a satchel full of nice red apples I'll divide with you.” ke Noods Suxsapariia NS Qo DAL The Chief Reason for the great succe of Hood's Sarsaparilla is found in the article itself, It1s Merit That Wins, aud the fact that Hood's Sarsaparilly actually sccomplishes all that 15 clatmed for it, hus given this medi- cine & popularity aud sale greater than any other sarsapurilla or blopd purifier, Hood's Sarsaparilla 15 sold by drg- ists. #1; six for®5. Prepared by C. 1. Hood & LApmhuL‘lrtn, Lowell, Mass. 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