Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 21, 1889, Page 4

o] Ve R SO THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1889 THE e B. ROSEWATER, Bditor. FUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally and Sunday, One Year,, Eix Months g Three Months, o Bunday Hee, One Fear .0\ Weerly Dee, One Year with Premium OFFICES. Oeage Ditca, oA Hovkery Bulidtog Chicago OMce, 647 Hookery Dulld New Tork, Hooms 14 nd 15 Teibune Butlds Ini I ashington. No. bi3 Fourteenth Street, Council Blufts, No, 12 Pearl Street. Lincoln, 1620 P’ Stieet, Eouth Omaha, Corner N and 20th Stroets, CORRESPONDENCE. Al communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the Editor- ial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. ATl Unsiness letters and remittances shonld he addressed to The Bee Publishing Compan Omaha, Drafts, checks and postoliice ora be made payablo 6 the order of the compan: The Bee Pl‘xhli&hiflflfifll}fllly, Proprictors prr Hullding Farnam and Seventeenth Strests, “Ine Bee on the Trains. There 18 no excuse fora faflure te on the trains, Al newsaealers have been noti- avelers who want trains where other Tnr DEx tLy Tie BER Yieace be pacticular to pive in all cases full fnformation as 1o date, railway and number of trnin. Give us your name, not for publication or un. neceseary use, but a8 a guaranty of zood faith, e THE DA BEE. Eworn Statement of Circalation. Etate of Nebraska, County of \III[‘XR!. e 18, o} Fublishing Company, ds 1he actunl circulation of week ending November secretary of The Bee Friday. Eaturday, Nov. Average... G Etate of Nehraska, | County of Douglas, (5% Sworn to before me and subscribed to presence this i6th day of Noveniber, tn m. D 1588, (Seal,] O 84 Notary Pubile. Btate of Nebraska, }'s County of Douglas, George I, Tzachuck, being duly sworn, de- oxes nnd says that he s secretary of The ee ublishing Company, that the actual averago duily circulation of Tne DALy BEe for the month November, 1688, 1508 copiea; for De- cember, 188, 1 for January, 188 1K,674 coples: for lebruary, 180, 18,095 coples: Tor March, 1850, 18854 cobles: for April, 188 6,550 coples: for May, 1689, 186 coples: for June, 180, 1KEM coples: for July, 18, 18733 coples: tor Augnst, 180, 15,661 coples; for Hep- for “October 188, Stominski church spire is grow- Mayor Broatch’s contribu- tions will send it up several feet. THE supreme court of Noew Jersey has confirmed the claim of Henry George to a bequest of ten thousand dollars left him by an eccentric farmer. Mr. George’s progress from poverty is un- mistakable. THE republican party cannot afford to permit the gangs of strikers drummed up by city officiuls to dictate party nom- inatious. Such action must be rebuked or the party will suffer a repetition of the recent county disastor. Tre judges and clerks of the city election will receive pay from the city, county and school board, or eighteen dollars each for two days’ work. The snlary is enough to command the serv- ices of first-cluss competent men. Tne haste displayed by the council granting the street railway company right-of-way over the Teath street via- duct, before that proposition is aporoved by the people, is entirely uncalled for. It will be time enough for the council to take uction when the viaduct gets faivly under way. And then the ques- tion comes up, how much the company shall pay for the right-of-way and how much it shall contribute toward the maintenance of the viaduct. Trose who imagine they can coerce the Union Pacific and Burlington roads into building the Tenth street viaduct do not comprehend the resources of those corporations in fighting fordelay. For nearly ten years the council and property ownors have struggled in vain for the opening of Fourteenth street under the turacks, an improvement which would not cost over twenty-five thousand dollars, At the same rate of progross how long would it take to se- cure an improvement costing one hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars against the united opposition of the railroads? Tue real estate exchange responded promptly to the demand for rail- .rond conuection with Dakota by appointing a committee composed -of leading business men to nego- tiate for the extension of the Omaha road from Hartington to Yank- ston. The distance to be covered is comparatively slight, the only obstacle ‘being a bridge over the Missouri river, The fact that rival roads are building into the Northwestern’s territory in Nebraska makes the present an oppor- tune time to impress upon the company the necessity of closing up this railroad -gap. IN twenty-five years cotton has de- clined from first to fourth place among «the products of the United States. The value of this year’s crop is estimated at three hundred and sixty million dollars, These figures are exceeded by the corn, wheat and hay crops. But while cot~ ton has fallen from its high estate at home it has no rival as an article of for- eign commerce. The yield this year shows a large increase, but the demand bas wlso increansed. Bradstreels esti- mates that the consumption for 1889-90 will exceed that of last year by over three hundred bales, insuring steady and remunerative prices to the plant- ers. e—— REPORTS from one hundred and forty- one railroads in the country show that the earnings for October exceeded those of the corresponding month last year by over five million dollars; an increase of thirteen per cent. The percentage of railway earnings has steadily increased month after month since the first of the year,confirming in a substantial man- ner the growing prosperity of the country, Itremains to be seen whether ihe railroads are disposed to share their increased earnings with their patrons ~by a reduction in freight rates, AN AMERICAN CUSTOMS UNION. One of the most important matters to be considered by the congressof the three Americas is that of forming an American customs union, and the problem it presents will be found not the least difficult of soluti All the south and central American countries liave tariff systems and customs regula~ tions more or less widely at variance with each other and, of course, differ- ing from those of the Unived States. In mady cases the regulations are of the most complex char- acter, containing numerous techuicali- ties that are troublesome to merchants, and peculiar requirements which are both annoying and expensive, Nearly oll theso countries are extremely acting in the administration of their customs laws, and, as the penalties for their violation are gencrally ‘oven going to the extent of confis tion, the merchant suffers severely who is so unfortunate as to have failed to comply with some requirement or misin- terpreted some technicality of the regulations. This state of affairs compelled the merchants of the Uni States doing business with Coutral and South Ameriea to transact it through commission merchants in those coun- tries, and has necessarily tended to somewhat restrict trade. How to simplfy the various tariff systems and as far as possible secure uniform customs regulations is a que: tion which will require the most attention of the con, ously one that prosents great difficul- ties. These will not, howevee, be found insurmountable if there is a sincere desire on the part of the repre- sentatives of all the countries to effect closer commercial relations and a gen- oral willingness to make concessions. ‘When, however, the great number of conflicting interests, local and national, are considered, a comprehensive cus- toms union at this time must bo re- garded as hardly possible. The south- ern countries are likely to maintain the general features of their tariff systoms, both as a means of protecting and developing their own indus- tries aud for the sake of the needed revenue. The fact that their markets are being more cagerly sought after will naturally be an 1ncentive to them to do th But a step, if not a very considerable one, in the direction of a customs union may bhe taken, and a good deal may be done in simplifying and securing greater uniformity in cus- toms regulations. In this the United States should set the example of a willingness to make liberal concessions. We caunot hope to convince the representatives of the other Ameri- cas of the wisdom or expediency of re- linquishing any part of their tariff sys- tems or modifying their customs regu- lations until we shall show them that we are disposed to make any change in ours that we would recommend to them. If they shall be given to understand that we are entirely satisfied with our policy and that closer commercial relations simply depend upon such modifications in their systems as we may suggest, it is ensy to wunderstand. that so far as this matter is con- cerned the conference will have no practical result. The task of effecting an American customs union devolves upon this country, and it is possible of final omplislynent only by very radical changes in our own tariff sys- tem. We musy be prepared to make very large concessions, most of which ara pretty sure to encounter a more or less vigorous hostility from the pro- tected interests that would be affected. Are these powerful enough to defeat the object in view? HOSTILITY 70 IRRIGATION. The advocates of irrigation for re- claiming the arid regions of the west will need to summon all their strength in order to accomplish anything in the next congress. We noted some time ago the development of obposition in the east to government appropriations for this purpose, and hostility to it is now manifesting itself in the south. Taking as a text the action of the re- cent convention of North Dakota, favor- able to irrigation, some of the southern newspapers unqualifiedly condemn the proposition that the government shall appropriate any money for reclaiming the arid lands, so that to the extent that these papers represent southern sentiment opposition to appropriations for irrigation may be looked for from the representatives in congress from that section. If this feeling should prove to be general, the southern vote in congress, united with that of the east, could very eusily defeat any plan for reclaiming the arid lands at public expense. There are both sectional and com- mercial considerations which will have influence upon this question, and it may be fairly assumed that these are stronger than any theories regarding the duty of the government in the mat- ter. So far as the south is concerned, it does not desire to see the develop- ment of the west for political reasons. Unpatriotic as the feeling 1is, the peonle of that section regard the progress of the west as a menace to their power and influence in the affairs of the govern- ment, In the cast the commearecial con- sideration is move potent, The reduced conditiou of the agricultural interests in that section is ascribed to the compe- tition of the west, and the efforts that are being made to restore those inter- ests would be less likely to be success- ful if the competing ability of the west were increased, Irrigation that would reclaim & region larger than the whole of New Englaud, and ren~ der it mwore productive than an equal area of land nat- urally supplied with moisture, might render more hopeless of recovery the agricultural interests of the east, though it would furnish homes for all her people engaged in farming and millions more. This hostility, grounded in selfish- ness, the advocates of irrigation will have to combat, and it can readily be understood that it will be no easy task to overcome it. That they have all the argument, practioal and patriotic, on ‘their side, the most inveterate enemy of a govern~ ment policy of irrigation will have to admit. The reclamation of the arid region, or so much of it as can be ro- claimed, moans an addition to the na- tional sealth many times greater than any outlay the government will bo re- ‘quired to make, so that the investment is one from which the most generous profit would be assured, benofitting the entire country. More than this, we should provide a territory, now al- moet valueless, capable of sustain- ing a population greater than that of the whole country at vresent, a consid- eration which must impress itself strongly upon every patriotic mind. There is no other government on earth having the means at command to ren- der such an arvea of value that would hesitate a moment about doing it. As a contribution to the national wealth and power the reclamation of the arid 1ands of the west would be moro valua- ble than any addition ever made to the national domain. So far as tho question of tho merit and efficacy of irrigation is concerned, that is conclusively settlod. Its app! domonstrated that it produces the most sutisfactory results. Opposition on this scoro is therefore si- lenced, "The fight is to be made against sectional selfishness, bulwarking itself behind the narrow view that the gov- ernment should not employ the public money for a purpose of this kind. Sim- ply because to do so woutd be to inci- dentally-help individuals, although ns a matter of fact there is no public 1m- provement that does not incidentally help individuals. A WORD TO THE CONVE] The republicans of Omaha can con- tinue in the control of the city govern~ ment oniy on the condition that they nominate candidates who are popular and have nothing to explain away 1n their public careers. The republican city convention has a very grave re- sponsibility., If it acts on mere impulse and refuses to take a broad view of the situation it will invite disaster. The candidate for mayor will necessa- rily either pull the ticket through or prove a dead woight. The mere fact that a candidate imagines or pretends that he is svre to win should go for nothing. Every in- telligent observer must know that several of the aspirants do not have the ghost of a show for election, no matter how much money they spend or how much patronage they can promise. And there are candidates who cannot hope to win because.they are not in pos- ition to command the support of the business community. What the convention must do if it de- sires success is to lay personal feeling aside and nominate the man who is least offensive to the mass of voters, and who comes backed by friends who are in position to exert the largest influence in his behalf. In other words, the con- veution should nominate the most available man. There is no written or unwritten law that demands that Mayor Broatch or any other incumbent shall be renomin- ated if there is not a reasonable pros- pect of his election. All appeals to the law and order element in the mayor’s behalf are mere political clap-trap. The performances of Mayor Broatch and his satellites in the present cam- paign have most effectively disabused the minde of men who kuow a hawk from a handsaw. A man who courts the saloon influence and enlists bums, roughs and habitual law bre: like the redoubtable “Doctor” Slominski to force a renomination at the primar- ies can hardly arouse much enthusiasm among people who earnestly desire the enforcement of the law. 1t goes without saying that the con- vention cannot afford to endorse every candidate for the council who comes backed by his own ward. This is an election at large and the convention should be as careful 1n the selection of councilmen as in the nomination of mayor. MAKE THE CHARGE SPECIFIC. When a manty man has anything to say in the interest of the public, or de- sires to discuss any issue in which the public is interested he need not sneak behind an assumed name. Mr. John D. Howe has a perfect right to differ from this paper on any subject or issue. He has a right to antagonize either or all the bond propositions that are now pending and express his views concern- ing these propositions through the press without reserve or hindrance, over his own name. But Mr. Howe has no right morally or otherwise to assail the mo- tives of this paper from the ambush— behind the convenient cloak of *Tax- payer,” or any other pseudonym, If he sees any conspiracy to throttle Omuha, or knows of any corrupt or mercenary combine between this paper and the Union Pacific railrond, it would be more chivalrous and honorable for him to come to the front and make the charge specific. That would be creditable to him as a citizen and gen- tleman. But his bushwhacking war- fare is simply disreputable. Mr. Howe has posed as an anti-monopolist for a great many years, but his practice has been decidedly at variance with his professed convictions. The columns of Tue BeE are open to Mr. Howe, as they always huve been to any citizen who desires to discuss public issues, but he will have to muster up courage enough to father his bantlings over his own name. —— WrATH and rage reign in Chicago. The Garden City discovered unmistak- able evidence of a tie-up between New York and St. Louis to defeat her in the race for the World’s fair. The factthat New York, after desperate work, raised a little more than three million dollars, bas convinced the managers that they can no longer ignore and ri licule Chi- cugo’s big fund, backed by unlimited energy, and if they cannot secure the fair and a government bonus, they pro- pose to punish Chicago by supporting 8t. Louis, m— Mg. Jim Boyp is willing to sacrifice himself for the good of the democratic party, provided the nomination is ten- dered on a silver platter, —— The Revolr in lowa. Utica Herald. The people of lowa revolted agaiust pro- hibivion and the surrender of the state gov- re ernment to | , They have not reversed their party fealty, on leading issues, When those are under eodsmderation Iowa will speak as of old. IR THe Denth of a Craze. “Born frof daprice and killed by a shrug of the shoulders,” is M. de Blowitz's epitaph upon Boulangism. X Anofher Seat at Auction. .. Cleveland Leader. The interqstiag question now is, how much money will it take to buy the United States senatorship frdm Ohio. T Diinks All Round. Lotfeoille Courisr-Journal, Things. must have been very lively at the bar of that Chicago hotel where thirty-seven Maine men put up the other day. - The Only Essential Requirement. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, The objection to Colonel Brico that he is not a resident of Ohio 1s trivial. A demo- cratic candidate for the Ohio senatorship can live where he pleases; it is only required that his money shall be spent in the state. =t The Lnat Farthly Act. San Francisco Alta. 1t is probable that on Judgment Day,when planets are colliding in space and the sun is rapidly cooling off and Gabriel is whetting his lips to blow the “Light out," the governor of Peunsylvania will ask for a halt while the final distribution is made of the fund to the Johustown sufferers, e — THE AFIERNOUN TEA. Swoet courtshiv! O, enjoy it, Nor hasten to destroy 1t By making all too soon the maid your wifo, wife, wife; The whispering and the sighing Prolong—the hours now dying Aro the sweetest you will ever know in life, life, hfe. “Quick, Ethel! Look aristocratio. comes the duke of Freshwater.” don’t worry, 1'm not for export.” ! you in favor of Henry Georgo's singlo tax idea! You wero violeutly opposed to it aot long ago.” *Yes; but I'm married now." Hero “Mamun, The Indiana busband who walked away from homo twenty-six years agn and ro- turned the othor duy to find his wife remar- ried, and o raise a row about 1t, should be @ven a lift out of the country on the toe of aboot. A wife may let her husband roam around for fivo or ten’ years without asking any questions, but if left much longer thun that she has a legal right to look out for het- self. Although they went to school together, And grew, up children side by side, Henever dreamed how much he loved hor Until her wealthy uncle died. Miss Gwendoline Caldwell's wealth is sald to have been absurdly exaggerated, She is not betieved to be worth more than 700,000, and her offer to, settle $10,000 a ycar on her prospective husband was one of extraordi- nary generosity. Peolo who know Miss Caldwell say ‘that if she was genorous on this occasion 1t ‘was something entirely un- precedented in ber carcer. She is describ us being alyost as thrifty as Mrs. Hetty Green herself, and it is belicved that she presented 0,000 to the Catholic coilege in Washington . because_she was so ordered to doin her father’s will and had no choice in the matter whatever, Ho was p lawyer notea for his skill And deeply learned in many a logal tome, n court hooften broke a rich man’s will, But could not break & woman’s won't av howe. “Mr. Orville R. Dupp,” said the man with the bill in a loud, harsh, meaning voice, *you said you would certainly pay this if I would call this morning.” I know I did,” said the miserable man, “but my wife is out some- where with my pocketbook buyingme a birth- day vresent.” A French mayor, who at one time held the office of stipendiary magistrate, was ubout to perfarm the civil service of marriage. **Mile. X——" he said, addressing the Lride, *'do you agree to take Mr. Z——,here preset, for your wedded husband?” ~ Aud after the young lady biad replied in the afirmative, tho mayor, turning to the bridegroom, deliv- ered himselfas follows: “Prisoncrat the bar, what have you to say in your defense?” e STATE JOTTINGS, Nebraska. tral City now has a daily paper called the News. A sixty-five-yearold Lyons woman has just begun to take lessons on the piuno, A white Canadiaun owl was killed by a resident of Ridvenna which measured six feet fron tip 1o tip. The Ravenna cheese and butter factory is completed and mas been accepted by the building committee, Blue Hill, in Webster county, claims the disuinction of having more prohibition voters than any town of 1s size in the state. Judge Swezzy has resigned as county judge of Webster courty and D, B, Trunkoy, the judge-elect, will fill our the unexpired term, Forty business men of McCook have or- ganized a club, and will soon be at home in roums now occupied by the United States land offica. ‘I'here are eleven crimioal and over two hundred civil cases on the docket of the Adams county district court now in session ot Hustings, A colored waiter in the Bostwick hotel at Hastings named Bluck stabved Harry Kline, the steward of the hostelry, with a fo k, in- flicting an ugly wound. It was tne result of a kitchen quarrel. Little boys smoking cigarettes 1 & hay loftset fire to the barn of Deputy Snerift Hinman av Broken Bow, but the blaze did not prove half 8o warm as the boys felt after an interview with their father. The fifth annual session of the Southeast- ern Nebruska Teachers association will be held at Nebraska Citv November 23 and 20, and an interesting and extensive programme has been prepared for theoccasion, The stockholders of the North Nebrasks Fair and Driviag Park association at Nor. foik have decided to increase the stock from $10,000 to #25000. which will place the or- gauization in axcellent financial shave, A Plattsmouth young man started to takea bath while under-the influence of liquor, but while gazing 10to the tub with his hands in s pockets he lost lus balance and fell into the water head first, He was too drunk to help himself, and but for the tmely arnval of a friend would undoubtedly have drowned, He has sworn n bathing. The busin en of Callaway do not let trifles interfer&Wwith public improvements, They recently voled bonds to aid in the con- struction of a fBring will in consideration that the man, 0 was to build the mill should invest @,080 in the enterprise. The contractor falled to fulfill his part of the agreement, 50#vith the customary enterp: i the citizens rafsed the money among the selves and the mill will be buly as con- templated. Towa ltems. Dubuque’s charity ball netted $850. There are 480 pupils attending the state university. ‘The new opera house at Ottumwa will be opened December 4. Frank Hause of Grinnell éried to put out a furnace fire by pouring water on 1tand was terribly burned. P Seits 4 s s o word s bon 1 ever issued by the city, o %0 A7, IORGA I'wo thousand bass and pike have been laced in the Tiver at Charles Ci Diafion Siates ish commissigmer. > 7 St. Fraocis Xavier church at Dyersville, the most magnificent Cavholic edifice in the state, will be dedicatea December 8. Mrs. Mina Davis, residing near Oaklaod, has become insane on veligious subjeot has been sent to the asylum at Mt. Pleasant, M. M. Lusa of Dahlogena townsh'p, near Ottumwa, eighty years old, has taken out a license to marry kclizabeth Burnaugh, aged Bixty-two. Kour children and fifteen granonhildren helped Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Lamb ocele- brato their golden wedding at Clinton last week. P. G. Balliogall, Wapello county's senator- elect, has contributed $4,000 toward building a Young Men's Christian ussociation build- g at Ottumwa, Kastern capitalists have agreod tolput in a tin cun factory plant at Keokuk with a ea- pacity of 50,000 cans daily and employine 125 operalives, if the citizens will take $10,000 ‘worth of stock. ¢ A little child of Mr, Gregorson, residing in North Clinton, was killed by a cow Mon- day morning. The mother had gone out washing, leaving her two little children at homo to watch the cow, which was grazing out in the lot, when the animal attacked the children and gored the youngest one to death, 7 August Barkois, of Davenport, has been adjudged insa He imagined that a prom. ineut society lady of that city wasin love with him and bas for the past month or so Dbeen writing her lettors every day, to which sho paid no attention. ‘The other day ne called at her residence to claim her as his had never met him boforo, d of his insanity, sho - formed the authorities. He will be taken to the asylum. - THE MAKING OF ROADS, France Leads—Kngland Has Bad Ones, and This Country Worse, Joseph Pennell, the artist, hasa re- cent article entitled “What I Koow About Ronds.” He says some of the vilest roads he has over ridden on ave in England. This will be news to many people who have looked on English roads, especially in comparison with the highways of America, as being well nigh perfect. Ile says thereis not a 100-mile streteh of road in England that is in good condition, and not a foot of it anywhoro that is as well keptas it ought to be. 3 ‘Whether this is true or not, there_is no question of the fact that America can double-discount England or uny other country in vile roads. The American method of road-making is singulacly well adapted to the produc- tion of the poorest possible kind of road. In most countiesin the United States 1tax is levied, but the farmer or person taxed has the option of working out his road tax,so much being allowod for u man, and so much for a team of horses each day. Asa general thing in the rural districts labor is more plentiful than money, aud so the making of roads is left entirely in the hands of the farmersalong tho road, ana even when money is collected that monoy is expended by having more of the same kind of labor, and none of this labor is ever under the direction of any- body who knows the least thing about road-making. In Canada this state of things is as bad. The tax is reversed there—tha is, a certain amount of days of statuto labor is put against cach” person, and the person has the ontion of paying in cash $1 for each day’s work, 1f the per- son does not desire to do the work himself or hire 1t done. The roads are under the chavge of a path-master who is appointed annually and has charge of acertain district. The path-master knows nothing whatever of the theory or practice of making roads, and never has an instance been known where he endeavored to learn anything about it. The working out of statute labor is looked on both in Canada and in the United States as a grand holiday, where neighbors unite and work just as little as they pos- sibly can, lonfing a great deal of the time under shade trees and swapping yarns and gossip. What work is done is the digging of useless ditches that lend nowhere and the piling of the divt in the center of the road where it makes, when the fall rains come, one great heap of unfathomuble mud. This w after year, and the conse- hat the roads in the rural ica and Canada are the worst that could possibly As the ads ys: *‘They things better ‘rance.” and Mr. Pen- nell tells us how it is done in France. Every milo or two along the Fronch road you will find a man breaking stone into pieces about two and one-half inches squarc. These pieces of broken stone are arranged symmetrically with a roof on each pile, These men work at stone breaking in spring, summer and autumn, and all the while other men are sweeping the road with great long brooms and piling up the dust for future use or sale. A'loose stone or a lump of dirt on a French road is abso- lutely unkunown. In October these broken stones ave laid evenly on the rond and the 1nterstices are filled up with smaller debris from the pile and Len clay or chalky earth 18 spread over t. The whole is thoroughly saturated by water ‘thrown from the hose'of an engine which runs the steam roller, and up and down over this mass the heavy steam roller passes, pressing it into the most perfect rondbed that is known. The roadway in Krance is wide enough for two or three tenms to pass, There are rarely any fences by the French farms, but on each side of the road is u small dyke built up to pre- vent the water from running from the ms onto the roads. Near the dyke is a deep ditch and between that and the road a grass plot that is keptin perfect order. Kvery one hundred feet or §0 there is a trench cut in the grass plot that allows the water to run to the road into vhe deep trench, and so the rouds are kept perfectly druined. All the distances are marked off by stones about t:7o and a half feet high. On one side of the stone you see the name of the mnext importaut town, with its distances in kilometers, and on the other side the name of the importanttown you have loft, On its face you read route No, so-and-so, and below the name of the great city from which it starts and great city to which it goes, and the distance to each road, Everv bundred meters you will see a white stone with the number inscribed on it. 1f every county in America’ were Lo appoint an efficient road engincer who knew something about the theory and practice of road making, and the whole stutute labor or road tax labor were in- telligently employed even under the present system, something might be done to make the roads of America other than a reproach to the country. Itis an important question and has much to do with the welfare of every community., Nothing is more neces- sary than perfect roads throughout the country, and if Mr, Pennell’s article has called attention to the reckless system which isin vogue in America in buld-~ ing roads, it will do a very great deal of good. st Booth's Retiring Nature. Booth is a recluse, ana his rooms over the Players’ club are his hermi- tage, snys a New York letter to the Piutsburg Post. There he spends nearly every hour of his time, except when duty compels his presence in the thea- ter. Even the rehearsals are usually held without him, his part being read by the stage manager, and ho seemed to grudee the time and labor required to go through with those passages in which he was aciually joined with Mod jeska. NSRS S Beecham's Pills act like magic on & weak stomach, THE CAPITAL CITY GRIST. Tho Homes for the Friendlnss and Fallen Women Quarreling. ADDITIONAL SILVER DELEGATES. Richard Fitzsimmons Found Guilty of Manslanghter—State Honse Items—TheSupreme Court —City Notes, 1029 P & " Lixoony eb., Nov. 20, It has just become known that the asso- ciate board of charities and the board of the Home for the Friendless have been at logger- heads for several months past. It appoars that the management of the Homo for Fallen ‘Women at Milford has had troublo to place the children born at that institution. The board of charities insists that the Home for the Friendless is the proper place for them, but it seems that its board outertains a different opinion. In fact, the management of the Home for the I'riendless openly ro- fuses to reccive any children born at the Milford home unless pay is guaranteod for their support and maintenance. OUN BrreAu oF Tite OMAUA Bie, } Additional Silver Delegates. Leander G. Gerard, Columbus; General Delevan Bates, Aurora: J. H. Woolley, Grand TIsland; John Fitzgerald, Lincoln; C. H. Dietrick, Hastings; E. A. Cady, St, Paul; J. N. Paul, St. Paul. The District Court. Richard Fitzsimmons, who killed William Green of Waverly last spring, was found wuilty of manslaughter. The jury was out but a short time. A motion was filed and argued this morn- ing for a new trial in the case of the state vs John Taylor, who was “convicted of mur- der in the second degree last week. ‘Ihe motion was overruled and the defendant's reme court. Robert Price, eharged with an attempt to commit rapo on a young girl in ths city, the defendant was called, but Price did not showup. A motion was made 1o forfeit his recognizance, und a hearing will be had on this motion on tne 22d. George McNinch pleaded guilty to the crime of horse stealing nnd was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. State House Jottings. The Farmers’ State Bank of Eustis filed articies of incorporation today. Capital stock $30,000. Incorporators: William R. Kinnand, J. R. Mason, John Ohlring and B, W. Curley. : Tde First Natioual bauk of Ulysses also fllod articles. Authorized capital stock £50,000. Incorporators: George W. Lord and U. C. Guss. The board of public lands and buildings, Messrs, Cowdry, Steen, (Lill_and Leese, ac- compauied by Hon. Church Howe, loft' for Pora this evening over the Missouri Pacific. They will spend the night at Nebraska City, and o on_in the morning to adjust the dii- ferences botween Principal Farnham and the steam fixture contractor: The Supreme Court. Today's proceedings in the supreme court were as follows: Mr. James M. Wooley of Grand Island was admitted to practice. The following ¢cases were argued and submitted ; Braithwaite vs State; Goss vs Rumler; Spencer vs Moyer; Wood River Bank vs Kelley; Easterly Organ company v8 Veode) Grand Island Gas company vs West; Cro- well vs Harvey; Wallace vs Thresher; Nunn vs Home Insurance compa s Vs Par- rott, motion to dismiss, U urned to ‘Thursday, Novembey is ve Sloman. Error from the district court of Douglas county, Aftirmea. Opin- axwell, J. . Error from the district court of Dou; . Reversed aud re maunded. Opinioa by Cobb, J. Frey v. Owens. Erropy from the district court for Cass county. Aflirmed. Opinion by Cobb, J. Seiberling v. Demares. Error from Aistrict. court for Lancaster county. versed and romanded, Charles v. State. Error from the district court for Douglas county. Sentence reduced. Ovinion by Maxwell, J. A young man less than twenty-ono years of age of previous good character and habits, arrived in the city of Omaha in search of employment. Fe was without money, and Tell in with several persons who induced him to drink intoxicating liquors, and_thercafter persuaded him to burglarously entor a dweli- ing house in said city with one of their num- ber. His associate escaed, and he was found hiding in a closet in said_house badly frightened. On an information being filed agaiost him he pleaded guilty to the charge of burglary, aud was sentenced to_imprison- ment in the penitentiary for ten years. Held, That while the crime of burglary was one of a grave character, which ordinarily should be severely punished, yet in this case the punishment was too severe, and tha term of imprisonment would bo reducod so us to expire November 27, 1859, the sentence dating from June 80, 1885 the Re- Opinion by Cobb, J. City News and Notes. John MacMurphy was n the city yester- day. Treasurer Kent of the statd board of agri- culture Was 1n the city today with his wife. Captain Tibbetts of the Denver & Rio Grande is in the city today, shaking hands with the boys. One of the Runyan giris who disappeared from Nebraska Civy a few days ago, is sup- posed o ve in this city. OMcer Moore has oeen in the city a coupie of days looking for her, but without success, tuough partics claim to have seen her yesterday. Mrs, Nettie Ostrander and Miss Lizzie Adair were pulled by the police lust night as com- mon prostitutes, and James Ostrander, the husband, says this was done because the po- lice believe that he had something to do with biding the Runyan girls, He says that he knows where they are but he won't tell. He and his wife were married last August while under arrest, This morning when his wife and her companion were 5£-cnurunn they had barely got home, whon Jim assaulted Mrs. Jim and beat ber in a brutal manner. A telepbone message was sent in wnd Os-, trander is behind the bars, while the police are looking for the Runyan girls, George Stabler of the Capital hotel and Minnie Moore were married this afternoon. L he Church Militant in Africa, The good English people who have contributed to the cause of African missions may bo made somewhat uneasy when they learn of the methods to which the missionaries resort to main- tain their foothold and push their pro- paganda, but it appears to have come to be u question of life or death with the mission stations, and few persons would o so far, probably, as to blame them for employing carnal weapons to defend their helpless charges against the slave- hunting Avab adversaries, says the Boston Journal. It does seem a little strange at first to read that the mission- aries at Lake Tanganvika have built a fort and surrounded it with thorn bushes and barbed wire and scattered broken bottles on the ground to make things interesting for hostile savages. That certainly was not one of the objects specified when the funds were raised 1o send the miesionaries to the dark con- tinent. But 1t should be remembered that the missionaries have no one to protect them. Kngland and Germany are too busy just at present trying to outdo each other in trade and politics to give much attention to such imprac- ticable persons. The indignation of the missionaries ot finding that the Arab slave catchers are arwed with guns of Faglish manufacture is safely pardon- able. This English practice of putting wenpous into the hands of the enam{l is somewhat akin 10 the habit our brother tragers had some years ago of furnish- fog Indian wareiors with the latos Ihfvws out in the way of repeating riflos —theso riflos froquently figuring thores aftor in raids and skirmishes to the dis- comfiture of the soldiers of the federal army. b — Suporstitions of ‘roland. Itis very unlucky to moeet in the early morning a barking dog or n bare- footed woman, When a corpse retains animal heat overlong another member of the family is to die within the year. 1f the stacks are notcircled each night by the noiscless barn owl o blight will fall upon next season’s orops. Any three 1dle strokes of a stick in the nshes or a spade or other farm tool in the soil making a figure resembling a coffin is certain to protend death in one's family. The linnet pours forth the most mels ancholy song of all Irish birds, and I have seen honost-hearted peasants af- fected by it to tears. ‘When the nest of the thrush or mavis is built unusually high in the thorn- bush this betokens a groat calamity to a neighborhood. L/ Over in Connamara to this day o fun- eral procession on its w: to church will halt some distanco away and cast together a huge pile of stones. One of the oldest of all Irish super- stitions is the belief thatif you chase and cateh a buttorfly you imprison the ndeving soul of your grandmother. Siriin oment in the Liaw, ature and in painting, as \ knows, the same element is absolutely necessary; the picture must toll its s t must exhibit one point to which all tho other parts are subor- dinated, and even qn essay which is ill- constructed and_ill-proportioned will have but a short life though it may con- tan fifty clever things, says the Boston Post. Few laymen. I fancy, realize that the same principlo holds good in the dry profession of the law. A loarncd counsel whom I met at the club a night or two since was oxpatiating on the dramatic beauty of an argument, relating to some extremely technical matter that he had just been reading. It involved, he suid., many considora- tions, and yet was arranged and subor- dinated with such art that every word seemed to poiat to the single conclusion which was finally veached. This, of course, is something very differentirom the theatrical and oratorical devices that are smud to carry weight with a jury: it was the intellectunl aspect of the drama which my legal friend had in mind when he found it illustrated in an argument intended for the diserim- inating and passionless ears of the court, 2 Y Close ntests in Ohio. The closest gubernatorial contests ont of the forty-five in the history of Ohioe says the Ut i > order of the n vness of mu tween successful and defeated candi- dates, been as follow IPord over Weller. MoArthur over Licas. —Alien over Noye: Bartiey over Tod. Meigs over Massio —Chase over Payne. .., 1803—Huntington over Worthington , hannon over Corwin, 1 Trimble over Campbeli . 1810—Meigs over Worthington —Lebb over lod Morrow ovor fr ver Thurman, Morrow over Trimblo. —Meigs over Scout —Hayes over Alle A Quarious tiodic, It is curious thut, after the lapse of move than 100 years, the superb furni- ture which Tippoo Sultan presented to Warren Hastings should be going back to India. The unique suite s the great sight av Daylesford, wh placed in the principal .drawing room, until the ostate was sold in 1853, after the death of Mrs. Hastings, when it WwAas pu ¢d by Lorda Albert Denison (afterward Lord Londesborough) swhose son sold it a fow months ago for £1,500 to Mesars. Wertheimer, from whom it has been purchased by the Maharajah of Durbhangah. This suite originally included a bed of solid ivory, magnifi- cently carved, which was presented by Warren Hastings to Queen Charlotte, and it is commewmorated 1n the **Rol- ind.” This bed, which was of great value, afterward came into the posses- sion of George IV., who is understood to have given it usa prosent to a for- eign sovereign, [ndigestio ls not only a distressing complaint, of itself, but, by cauging the blood to become depraved and the system ene feebled, is the parent of innumerable maladies. That Ayer’s Sarsaparilla 48 the best cure for Indigestion, even when complicated with Liver Complaint, is proved by the following testimony from Mrs. Joseph Lake, of Brockway Centre, Mich. “Liver complaint and indigestion made my life a burden and came near ending my existence. 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