Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 25, 1889, Page 4

THE _DAILY BEE. __B. ROSEWATER, Bditor. PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING. TERMS OF 8UBS(RIPTION Dafly and Sunday, One Year " Thres Months, PRrRe . Bunday Hee, Une Year ... " Weekly Dos, One Year with Preminm. OFFICES, Omana, e Buflding, Chicago Ofios, 667 Kookery Tiutiding New York, Hooms 14 and inj Washington. No. 519 Fouctecnth Street. Council Blufts, No. 12 Pear] Stroct. Lincoln, W29 P St eet, Bouth Omaha, Corner N amd 2th Streets. CORRESPON DENCE. All communieations relnting to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the-Editor- isl Department. BUSINESY L 058 letters an b addressed toThe Hee Omaha. Drafts, checks be made payable t¢ the ord The Be Publishing Comany, Proprictars sxr Bullding Farnam and Seventeenth Strects. TTERS, tances shonld ing Company, <foflice orers 1O of the company, Al s The Bee on the Trains. ‘There 18 no excuse fora failure to on the trains, Al newsaealers hav 1ed 1o carry & full supnly Trx Bex and cun't got 1§ on trains where other Omaha papers are carried are roquested (0 no- tify Tir Bee. ? 3 Tieass be particular togive in all e full ser o Tuw Nire been notl- fravolers who want inform ation as to date, rallway axd nu train. Give us your nnme, not for publication or un- nocessary use, but as o guarauty of wood faith, THE DALY BEE, fworn Statement of Circulation. Etate of Nebras i) fus , secretary of The fes Fublishing Compuny. solemnly swear that the actunl circulation of 11k DALY Bry forthe Week ending November i, 155, was as foliows: Sunday. Nov, 17 o Nov. ‘Tnesauy, Nov, 19 Wednesduy, Nov. 2. Thursday, Nov, 81 Friday, Noy. 24 Baturday, Nov. Average.. Etate of Nebraska, Vil County of Douglas, (55 Bworn to before me and subscribed to nmy prosonce thisd dayof November, A, D 15, Notary Public. State of Nebraska, 1. County of Donglas, | George B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- es and says that ho is secretary of The Hos ublishing Company, that the actual wyerags dmly clrculation of e DAty By month November, 18, 1896 coples; for De- cember, 18, 18223 copies:’ for Januiry 18,674 coples; for Kebruary, 1580, 154 for March, 1860, JRRW copies: for April 1850 coples; for May. 1550, 180 cople June, 189, 1858 coples: for July, 18, coples: tor August, IS, 15651 coples: for 18, 18,710 copie 1997 coples, RN Eworn to before me and subscri| presence tins2d day of Novembut, A (i LININGER, Rush, Armstrong and He!- sley cannot be matched by the democ- PHiL ANDRES will require something better than soap to grease Lis path to the police covrt bench. CHARLEY GOODRICH insists that he does not want the office of comptroiler. The voters should respect his wishes. THE republican ticket banishes fac- tion fueds from the party. Active and urited work will insure its success at the polls, —— THERE is a stampede of forgers and defaulters from this country to Canada and Mexico. Their room isbetter than their compan, MAKE Thanksgiving memorable by raising the commercial blockade at the bridge, and render Tenth strcet safe for travel and traffic. CHICAGO'S prospects for the world’s fair are brightening. . The managers propose to strike a match and fire up the natural gas wells in the vicinity. AN energetic and united effort will close up the railroad gaps between Omaha and Dakota and open a new and growing market for the jobbers of this city. THE jobs and speculations of the. school board should not be overlooked in the oxcitement of the campaign, It is the one bond proposition before the voters that should be wigorously re- jected. —— EX-CONGRESSMAN JOUN A, MCMAHON is spol-en of as & democratic candidate for United States senator from Ohio. McMahon has brains, hence he wont succeed. Ohio's democratic senator must be a man with a barrel. —— NEEDLESS delays in the completion of public work should not be tolerated by the board of public works. This is espgoially necessary on streets being graded. Property owners should not be put to the annoyance and discomfort which torn streets entail in winter and the contractors should be held strictly to the terms of the contract. Mn. LININGER guarantees a govern- ment of the people, not of the individ- ual. He will not cater to cliques or fac- tions, but will discharge the duties of mayor, without fear or favor, for the best interests of the city. His success 88 o business man affords the best guarantee that municipal affairs will be honestly conducted on a business basis and with a view to stimulating public and private enterprise. T — THERE is a needless amount of sym- pathy wasted on “the poor Indians.” Financially they are far better fixed than the average run of white people. There are but few tribes in the country without & snug surplus in the national treasury, besides empires of lana rap- idly increasing in value through the industry and thrift of the whites. The Chippewas of Minnesota have relin- quished three million acres of lund to the government, from which they will realize from tweuty-five to fifty willion dollars, a sum sufficient to keep the tribe in luxurious idleness for all time. The Sioux Indians will net something like twonty millions from the reduc- tion of their reservation in Dakota, and they will have eleven million acres left 1o parcel ‘out in the future if theirfunds vundow. All over the west and south Indian reservations are growing in value. 1f all the wribes were to go out of busiuess as government wards to- morrow and sell their land at murket rates the returns would show them to be the richest race of people on the fuce _of the globe. REPORT OF SECRETARY OF WAR. We publish this morning the most important portione of the annual report of the secretary of war. The matter of most general public interest is what he snys on the subject of coast defenses, He favors a liberal policy for placing the country in & thoroughly defensive condition. He remarks that “although our position and the traditions of our national diplomacy tend to the maintenance of ponce, a defenso- less condition will ever 1n- vite attack.” Ho correctly says that it is not a local question. “*A hostile shell in the streets of New York strikes the prairies as woll—their corn and wheat ghare in the loss.” This is obviously the proper line of reasoning on this question. The entire country is torested in the adequate protection agninst possible attack and destruction by a foreign enemy of the vast property in our seaboard cities. Any loss or damage to that property must neces- sarily be shared in by the whole people and affect the general wellare. In the view of the secretary of war 10 time is to be lost in placing the cap- ital of the country, the commercial metropolis on the Atlantic seaboard, and at least one port on the Pacific, in the best possible state of defense. He thinks the country cannot proceed too rapidly with defensive work until it embraces every important vulner- able point from the St. John's to the Rio Grande and the ports of the Pacific. It is not to be inferred from this that therec1s any apprehension in administration quarters that the peace of the nation is likely to be soon disturbed. But the creation of defanses necessary for with- standing the attacks of modern guns 18 a matter of time, and whenever such worlks are begun several years will be consumed in completing them. Admit- ting that they should be supplied, and the secretary does not consider it nec- essury to defend this proposition with any argument, there is never likely to be & more auspicious time than the present for beginning them. There will undoubtedly be a very strong pressure brought to bear on con- gress for a liberal appropriation to be expended in defensive works. The commercial interests of San Francisco and at other exposed points on the Pa- cific coast are thoroughly aroused to the necessity of securing protsction, and they will spare no effort to induce congress to make provision for Of eourse the superior claims of New York will receive consideration, while Portland and other cities will urge that they must not be ignored. Thus it is quite prooable that the next congress will inaugurate a general system of const defenses, which would mean an ultimate expenditure of at least two hundred millions of dollars, THE CONTRACT LABOR LAW. Congress will ba asked to make some changes in the contract labor law. Its overation has not been altogether satis« factory, and it has been injurious in directions not anticipated. For exam- ple, it is said to have proved damaging to our commercial relations with Can- ada and Mexico, and if rigidly enforced to its ultimate possibilities would almost, put @ stop to international trado. The secretary of the treasury will, it is said, recommend to congress important modifications of the law. The 0 of the department, it seems, has been to enforce it only as far as decent respect for it required, or where specific complaint was made which com- pelled action. In consequeuce of the complications arising under the law along the Canadian line, at points where residents of Canada were em- ployed in the United States, the secretary of the treasury directed customs officers not to rigorously en- force the law, and thus it has become practleally inoperative so far as the matter of persons residing in Canada and working in the United States is concerned, an exception being made at Detroit, where the law 1s being fully enforced. Obviously if this law interferes with our commereial relations with neigh- boring countries it will have to be modified. The intent of the law, which was to put an end to the importation of foreign labor, which had been carried on for years by manufacturers and corpora- tions to the great detriment of both home labor and that imported, was wise, but the law has been made Lo reach moch farther than this, and its application in some cases has subjected it to merited riaicule. The cardinal principle of the law will undoubtedly be preserved. There is no oue who will advocate reopening the doors for the wholesale importation of Buropean laborers, but it can be modificd in sev- eral respects, without at all lessening its value as o protection to American workingmen, AN INDEFIN TE BOUNDARY. The enabling act of congress fixes the eastern boundary of Nebraska in *‘the middle of the chunnel of the Missour: river.”” The supreme courtof the state declares that the boundary line is the middle of the chaunel of the river as it existed at the time of the passage of the enabling act. In the case of Holbrook vs Moore, 1876, the court decided that a change in the channel of the river does not alter the boundary botween Iowa and Nebraska as established by con- gress, This indefinite boundary presents se- rious complications, in view of the changing character of the river. It is utterly impossible for officers of the law to determine where the channel was in 1866. Lven if the bed of the river at that time could be found, a surveying corps would be necessary to fix the line where the authority ol Nebraska ended aud that of Iowa began. The absurdity of such a boundary is apparent. I es- tablishes a confusion of authority injuri- ous to both states. The guestion is one of serious import to Omahs, owing to the change of the river which placed what is known as Cut-off island on the Nebraska side of the channel, This tract of Jand has become a refuge for disreputable chay- acters who defy the lawsof the state and escape punishment for their crimes, Afew weeks ago & man was shot and fatally wounded in this disputed section. thor'ties of Douglas county and taken before a justice of the peace, but the decision of the supremo court tied the hands of the justice and the prisoner was released. The authorities of Iowa then made n domand for the prisoner. Governor Thayer refused to honor the requisition, declaring that there was a question whother the land on which the crime was commitied was in Iowa or Nebraska, and he declined to pass upon it. The result of this conflictof au- thority was the release of the prisoner, Itis of the utmost importance that congress should take some action to de- termine the authority of the respective states over land of this character. Cut- off island is a standing menace to the peace of Omaha, a haven for bad char- acters, where they can plot and perpe- trate crimes without fear of punish- mont. Tt is not necessary to consider the question of ownership of land thrown from state to state by the shifting of the channel, but good order and good government require that police juris- diction of the respective states should extend to the center of the main chan- nel of the river, wherever that may be. That will prevent the possibility of dis- pute and enable both states to deal vigorously with criminals, DRIFT OF CANADIAN OPINION. Some recent disclosures have shown very strongly that there is a vigorous drift of opinion in a portion of Canada favorable to fusion with the United States. The declarations of the head of the provincial ministry of Quebec, M. Merecier, and of another prominent French Canadian politician, M. The- bault, ave so significant as to have at- tracted wide attention and discussion. M. Mercier declared that his coun- trymen, the French Canadians, desire separation from England. They do not wish to resume their ancient relation to France, and they understand that thev are not strong enough to maintain political tndependence, so that the only inference to be drawn from their desire to throw off English domination is that they wish to become a part of the United States, T'he views expressed by M. Thobault appear somewhat inconsist- ent with this, and yet it 18 not necessary to pervert their meaning in order to see that they point in the same direc- tion. He suid that in less than halfa contury Boston would be the center of a French-Canadian nation, and New Eng- land would then have become New France. It would impugn the intelli- gence of M. Thebault to assume that he supposed the time would ever come when New England would withdraw from the union, so that the only rational inference must be that he had in mind a time when the whole body of French Canadians would become American cit- izens. These declarations do not, of course, meet with universal approval among French Canadians, but it appears that those who do not approve are not 1n- fluenced by any considerations of loyalty to England, but rather by incorrect views regarding what they might have to survender in order to secure annexa- tion. The chief fear seems to be that if they bocame a gart of the United States theiv religious rights, of which they are most temacious, would be imporilled. Of course this impression is due to ignorance of our constitution, and could be removed without the least difficulty. The discontent of the French Canadians is shown by the large vol- ume of migration to New England, and there can be no doubt that the spirit of dissatisfaction is steadily grow- ‘ing. This condition of affairs cannot continue without sooner or later lead- ing the people to make a determined effort to free themselves from a dis- agreeable allegiance, and whenever the time shall be ripe for making such an effort Quebec will doubtless seek annexation to the United States. This is the unmistakable drift of popular sentiment in that province, and it may be expected to make more rapid pro- gress in tho future, gy R ght You Are. Shenandoah (1a.) Sentinel, The Washington letter from our friend Perry S. Heath is one of the most popular features of the OMAmA DAiLy Ben., e R No Place For Slavery. Chicaao Times. The Brazilian republic has proclaimed in favor of universal suffrage. With slavery or restricted ballot for a corner stone the edifice which the revolutionists have reared would soon topple to the ground, Not a Difficuit Task: Chicage Tribune, A good pastor of & Chicago church, who was remembered to the extent of §20,000 in Mr. Crerar's will, is to preach tomorrow on tho subject “Rejoice Always.” Who couldn't, under the same circumstauces? e bl ¥rances May Learn, St, Louis Republie. Miss Frances E. Willard, in a datribe against woman's dress, says that if Parnell ‘wore petticoats there would never be home ryle. Miss Wiliard has never married. If slie ever does she will learn that petticoats ana home rule are closely assoclated, Not Uncommon Here, Detroit Frce Press, Italy is trying upon its vintage of this year aprocess known as electrification, which is said to give the wine a flae bouquet and to clavify it. This treatment of stimulating beverages 1s not a novelty in this country, 1t baving produced that standard brand of liquor known as *-Jersey lightniug.” Aol W L Let Bismarck Beware. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, An officer of the state department ven- tures the prediction that Bismarck will at- tempt to interfere in the affairs of Brazil on the pretext of protecting German residents. Such a thing is not impossible; but if the distinguished cbancellor imagines that ho can perform a feat of that kind without cn- countering serious opposition he 1s much mistaken. ————— GREAT MEN, Sir Morell Mackenzie contemplates mak- ing a lecture tour of this country. The communist, Felix Pyat, was a great fop 1n his youth. Sioce 1848 his life has been chiefly spent in prison or in exile. Ex-President Cleveland and Mr. Heury W. Grady are to attend the dinner of the Hoston merchunts’ association December 10. Caleb C. Willard, who for many years has been proprietor of the Eboitt house in ‘Washiogton, will shortly retire from the business, Charles H. Turner, who has beea nomi- Balea by Tammany to fill & vacancy in con- @ross, i nof Whkth a dollar and throe weoks | ago driving an jce wagon, Paul Blowet, known to fame as Max O'Rell, loa¥hs Eogland for this country Christmas 8at He comes to deliver 120 lectures and''fs guaranteod §30,000 for his trouble. s George William Curtis has for twenty- ight years received a salary of $25,000 o year from the Flarpers. He has been the literary guide, and adviser of their entire M. Bartboldl will executs the statue of Gambetta w) ® to be erected at Les Jardins, Villod'Avray. The statesman's home there fs been made state property and will be presorved intact as a memori: Ex Speaker Randall bas so much improved in health that his friends no longer doubt his ability to bo present at the meeting of con- gross, and he Is much in hopes that he will bo able to take Lold of the congressional busi- ness with something like his old vigor, though at best he can never afford to work as ho has in the past. Pere Pamphilo de Vensler, brother of Father Damien, has started upou a tour of the world for the purpose of collecting a fund to establish in memory of his brother an institution in which missionaries for the leper fiold may bo taught to administer not only to the spiritual but to the bodily wauts of their pitiable churges. Mr, Thomas Hart, the Cornish wutercolor artist, occupies a handsome house on the southern shore of England. His studio is sitnated under the shadow of the Lizard lighthouse, and the boathouse at the foot of his delightful grounds is the southernmost fixture of the work of human hands on the coast line of Old England, Baron Whitehead, the late lord mayor of Loudou, began lifo as a commercial traveler, and the present lord mayor, Sir Henry Isaacs, was at one time in his early career an operatio smger. He has a baritone voice, is an excellent musician and still sings a capital song, particularly in the evening, when the company is con genial. g STATE AND TERRITO LY, Nobraska Jortings. Forty buildings have been erccted at Grant during the past season. The Helmit. Red Cloud's prohibition paper, has been sold to the Red Cloud Democrat. There is no better location in the Nortt Platte for a steam flouring mill than Loup 5 An effort is bewng made to have a well bored at York in the hope of finding oil, gas, salt or ochre. J. P. Dunlap, a well known nurseryvman of Dwignt, was kicked by a kcrsu and very scriously injured. ‘The annual issue of clothing and house- hold goods to the Santee Indians is in pro- gress at the agency. Material is on the ground for the new hotel at Gothenburg, and the building will be erected as soon as possible. There are cight secret orders m Loup City, all of which ure in a prosperous condi- tion, excepting that of the Modern Wood- men. A York business firm, under the head of “Coflins and Caskets.”” aunuounces: *‘We huve made unusual offorts this fall to please @ patrovizing public.” Cheyenne counity recently sent thres in- corrigibles to the Kear reform sckool. They were Johu Morrison, Dora Belle Lamar and Warren Hutchinson. ‘The Beatrice Express claims to have posi- tive information that the Union Pacitic and B. & M. companies will build a union depot in that city next spring. Tdward Mitchell left Elm Creek on a duck shooting expedition several days ago and has not been heard from since. [t is feared that some accident has befallen him. A younz lady who represented a bank at the trade carnivdl av Superior wore a cos- tume covered with bank notes to the anount of $3,000 aud ¢arried $5,000 in a basket. M. J. Adams of Norfolk, fell from a scaf- folding a distance of fifteen feet and struck across a large timver, but aside from a braise on his knee was not seriously hurt. The old court house at Browaville has been turned over by the county commis- swoaers to the city authorities and will be used as a city hall, postofMice aund council roou, The ferry voat plying betWeen Santee Agency and Springtield. S. D., has been tied up on account of a lack of water. The Mis- souri is lower than it has been known for thirty years and it can be forded i1n many places. Mrs. Minnie Ebel, who was divorced from William Merten at the last term of the dis- trict court in this county, says the Dakota City Eagle, was married in Sioux City last ‘week to Frank Heere of Ponca. This is the third uniting the lady has experienced and the second for her happy spouse. At the national fat stock show recently held in Chicago, the butter manufactured by the Loup City creamery was awarded the second prize. This of course gives it first rank in the state of Nebraska, and is a great credit to the pressnt proprietors, who have Just re-lcused it for five years. The Ladies' Aid society of the M, E. church at Linwood will hold a fair Tuesday evening at the Northwestern hotel. A boun- uful supper will be provided and a beantifal autograph quilt coutaining 500 names, be- sides numerous fancy and useful articles, iil be on sale for the beuefit of the church, A few days ago the family of J, F. Gable, living three miles north of Ohiowa, Fillmore county, were poisoned iz a manner yet shrouded in mystery. Mrs, (i.xhflc died after a day of agony, but the others, although not yet out of danger, will probably recover., It is surmised that the poison entered into the composition of a certain coffoe cake, ns the two children who did not partake of it were not affected. The coroner was summoned, but no autopsy was held, as it was deemed unnecessary. lowa Items. A vinegar factory has been started at Storm Lake. . Franklin county voters have dgcided to build a $40,000 court house, - Anita business men have snbscribed $5,000 towards;building a creamery. Mr, and Mrs, R. V. Gill of Manchester celebrated their golden wedding last week. Rarney Kleinfelder of Muscatine was shot dead in a quarrel at Marcella, Miss.,, last weok. ‘The ex-mayor of Red Oak has been in- dicted by the grand jury for permitting gambling during the couoty fair. ‘The Buchanan Couunty Poultry and Pet Stock association will hold its fourth annual exhibition at -Independence February 10 Charles M. ‘Thuraton was jailed at Cedar Rapids for whipiing his wife because she would not et upin the moraing and make the fire, The contract bas been awardea for erect- ing the Tama conniy>soidiers’ monument. It will be of while bronze and grauite, and will cost about $4,000. A. A. Noyes of Steamboat Roo] shipped 500 head of cattle direct to England. Over a thousal ”aml will be shipped from Towa Falls this'wbelk, Fourteen years spent behind prison bars failed to convines Cal Lyon of the error of his ‘vays and be wiil spend anotner twelve months in confisbment at Avamosa for steal- 10g chickens at Marion. Last week Dr, Sitzer of Sac City, removed a plece of boue Trom the head of a soldiar from Fouda which had remained there ever since the bautle of Antietam, where he had received a wouud in the skull, Last week Uaptain Perkins of Onawa re- ceived from the dead letter office at Wash- ington a photograph of himeelf that he had sent to friends 10 Wisconsia while in the army, over twenty-ive years ago. In attemoting to arresta burglar at De- corah Sheriff Langlan was knocked out with the butt of a revolver, and the eriminal escoped. The crime was committed at Spell- ville, a small town uear Decorab, and the burglar was identified as u Bohewian farm laborer. He is still at large, T. 8, Parvia, the veteran Towa democrat, is at work on & plan w gather togather all the old time democrats in the state who voted for Governor Hempstead, the last democratic goveruor, in 1850, for tne purpose 3 attending in & body the waugaration of overnor-elect Holes. He has written to alt the prominent veterans fa the state andthe n;owl-nk I8 being recoived with enthu- slasm, The Two Dakotas, Susan B. Anthony will address the farm- Mineral paint_in large qualities has been discovered near Wermosa. ‘The Sioux Falls soap factory is running night and aay to supply the domand. ors’ :Ilhnm which meets at Aberdeen this week. The non-partisan probibition organization of South Dakota 18 in deby $5,000 owing to the recent campaign. A Hermosa man named Stoel owns a mare that has given birth to tivo colts this season, ono in July ano one in October. ‘There are eighteen prisoners in the Brown Y and the building is so small some of the inmates have to sleep standing up. Dr. Lauden of Deadwood, had both feet frozen while makiog a professional trip the other day and is now in a hospital bolag treated. Robbers attempted to shoot Christian Muchler, living uear Bureka, while he was ‘proparing to retire the other night, but the shots missed the intended victim and lodged in the headboard uf the bed. Some tirle ago William Wagner of White Lake, accidentaily had the instep of his rieht foot ahot off. He made his first ap- pearance since the accident on the street the other day. when tie slipped and broke the ankle of the same leg. Tho Women's Christian temperance union of Sioux Falls, is circulating petitions pledg- ing the signers to do no shoppiug on any evening excent Saturday. This is done in the iuterest of tho overworked salesmen and women, and is meeting with warm ap- proval, The following fish story is from the Mad- ison Sentinel. C, L. Alexander has on ex- hibition at his store a very perfect little apedimen of the finny tribe presented him by. his friend Willard Laugho. Ii came forth from a 190-foot. artesian woll twenty miles southwest of Howard. This well, it is said, flows with & wonderful force and throws out small fish freely during the spring and summer. The Sioux Falls Argus-T.oador is responsi- ble 1or the story that there Is & youog man living ten miles north of Hartford who is gradually fading away. Ton wocks ago he was attacked with a numbness of the body resembling paralysis. At the time of the attack he weighed 190 pounds and was five feet nine inches in stature, When weighed and measured the other day it was found that ke was *‘short five inches in height, and had decreased sixty-five pounds in weight. SRR A HEROINE FOR A MOTHER. Sacrifices Made For a Son's Educa- tion 1n Vienna, A case of female heroism of quite recent date, which somewhat reminds me of a much older case, 1n_which Mrs. Disraeli was the heroine, has come to the knowledge of the Vienna corre- spondent of the London Standard, In the Quarti Latin of Vienna. the quarter around Wiener Allgemeines Krankenhaus, theve lived, he says, “‘an aged widow apd her only son, a medical student. They were 80 poor that the mother was obliged to sew almost day and night, and the sop gave less which occupied the time nec ;: s studies in ovder to enter university e. *‘On the continent poor students are as frequently to be found as in Scot- land, and in Vienna they form the ma- jority. A good number of mere boys may be seen running about from one ena of the city to the other, giving lessons while they are themselves still pupils of the gymnasium (the conti- nental grammar school ), and of the un least two-thirvds are ng the expenses of their studi out of their own carnings. This works satisfactorily so long as the minor ex- aminations have to be passed, but when the students have the dokwr-examen or the staat \men before them, as- sistance becomes nece as studying hard and cramming others have provep to be incompatible. Tn such cases the poor mother or the sister, perhaps a seamstress or a dressmaker, or may be the bride-elect, who is also dependent on needlework, will for months strain her eyes and work her fingers to the bone to allow the candidate, who is the pride of the family, and may in days to come 'be its sup- port, todevote himself entirely to his DBooks to prepare for his examination. **The son of one poor widow:was s a ndidate, and while he was dili- gently applying himself to his studie: the final examination being very nea the mother deprived herself even o the pleasure of sceing him. Oneeven ing some four weeks ago the poor old woman pricked her finger with a necdle. Soon her hand became swollen, and the woman sought medical advice at a hos- pital. There she was told that the finger must bo amputated, and she in- sisted upon the operation being per- formed at once, so that the accident might be concealed from her son. ‘Twenty-tour hours later the whole hand was gangrenous and had to be taken off. Not a whisper of this misfortune was allowed to reach her son’s ears. At last the examination day for the doctor’s degree arvived, The young man left for the university after taking a hasty fivewell of his mother, and he had hardly quitted the homse bLetore the doctors arrived toamputate the arm of the silent old sufferer. It was at an advanced hour of the day when the son came home radiant with joy to tell his mother that their duys of anxiety and want were ut un end; that he had passed with honors, and that it would now be his turn to provide for his parent. But the one to whom he intended to commu- nicate his joy wes no more. Even the last operation was made too late, and blood poisoning was the consequence of her endeavors to hide her pains from her son.” e MON EY MADE BY BRAINWORKERS Fabulous Amounts Which Authors and Writers Are Alleged to Earen, The earnings of authors is a favorite topic_with the literary paragrapher, and it would be an interesting ana fruitful one in many respects if the writers would adherc to facts. But only harm can come from the state- ments set afloat which give ambitions young authors un entirely mistaken idea of the revenues of the pen, It reads very nicely, for example, to say thut Mr, Howells has a yearly in- 000 from his literary work, as has recently been stated. But it is not true, as all know who have ar knowledge at all of the earnings of lit- erary Jluople. Mr. Howells has un- doubtedly a comfortable income, thut is, comfortable for an author, but that income, I do not think, exceeds $15,000, of which two-thirds represents his work as editor of the “Study” depart- ment of Harper's Magazine. I, . Roe has been quoted as having enjoyed a yearly income of $50.000 for the last two years of his life. ‘This fig- ure is an exaggeration of just 100 per cent as I huopen to know, writes £, W. Bok in the Ladies’ Home Journal, Mrs. Burnett’s income has been rated as high as $75,000 a year, which is an- other gross m‘nummnt. Depend upon it, such incomes as those quoted are not enjoyed by authors in these times. If the average writer of novels and storvies, and I grant him fame and & wide circle of readers, is able to live comfortably from the pro- ceeds of his pen, and promptly pay his debts, he ig fortunate above scores of his fellow uuthors, Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children teething gives quiet helpful rest. 26 cents a bottle, Browa's will has boen taken. All the neces* sary westimony will be introdnosdstomorerow. o bequeaths #3,000 to the church of the Holy I rinity, which will be formally dedis oated as woon e it is paid for. This impor. tant event in the history of that oburch will probably take place two woeks from today, 1ts pastor says that the blight of debt will nevor hang over this magnificent now church building. - THE EYES OF GeNIUS, * ~ How the Orbs of the Poots Have Ap- neured 10 Dbscrvora. Emerson used to say that each man carriod in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, says Chamber’s Journal. Another close obsorver of human nature asserts that persons with prominent oyes are found to have great command of words Laxoony, Neb,, Nov. 24 and to be ready sponkers and writers, Judge Field, in chambers, heard arguments | A thicd holds the theory that tho pres in an interesting vase from PPlattsmouth last | valing color of the eyes of men of genius ovening. is gray. Tt uppears that some months since the city | Colonel Hig councit of Platismouth contracted with an 1 Ha electric hight company for ten lights to illaminate the city to be placed where the council thought it best to locate -them, It further appears that there are five wuards in Plattsmouth and ten councilmen, or one councilman to each electric light, aud that each member of the council had one are light located near his front door. Unfortunately it seswms that none of vie councitmen livad near the busi- ness heart of the city, and tue arc lights therefore dot the suburbs; some of them in fuct are so far from the business center that they are just inside thu city limits, 13ut the councilmen claim that the central part of the city was well lighted by was and did not need the electric light. Notwitbstanding this, howover, it seems that a large numbor of Plautsmouth citizens look upon the mutier very differently. The tact is cited that, like Rome of old, Plattsmoutt: is sitaated on seven bills, and that 1t 18 a city of magniticent distances, in fact city of suburbun villages; that' the chief end sought in pianting electric lights is to advertise the city’s advanta, that they should therefore be set in th et of the city whero thoy can be seen aud not out in the suburbs, I'be citizens have therefora applieu for an injuncture to restrain the council from locating the lights as indi The court took the case under udvisement and will not pass upon it before the widdie of the week. THE CAPITAL CITY GRIST, An Interesting CUase From Platts- mouth Before Judge Fleld. OFFICIALS NOT AFFRAID OF LIGHT Oass Connty’s Mctropolis Objects to Muminating Councitme s Farms ~The State Board«—Adjoura- mencof th: ¥. W, QAL Laxcoux Bureav or Tie OMina Ber, 1029 P Stuekr, nson speaks of Nathan vthorne's “greay eyes,” wnile K. H. Underwood, **who once studied them attentively, found them mottled gray and brown and indescribably soft and winning.” Elsewhere we dind it as- sorted that “no finer eyes had appeared +f in the Iilvw\r) circies of Groat Britain since Burns” time than those of Haw- thorne.” I 1 Gray's were “‘large and lus- and Dante Rossetti’s “gray-blue, clear andpiorcing, and characterized by that rapid, penétrating gazo so no- ticeable in Bmerson.” Shetley’s eyes ave always spoken of ns mag tand fully indieative of bis wayward genivs. One writer de- scribes them as ‘‘large and animated, with a dash of wildoess in them;” an- other speaks of them as “such a pair of of eyes as are rarely seen in a human or und other head, intensely blue, with a gontle aud lambent expression, yot wonderfully alert and engrossing.” Medwith, while writing of Shelley’s ap- pearance, refers to his blue oyes, **vel large and prominent. They were at times, when he was abstracted, as he often was in contemplation, dull, and, a8 it were, insensible to external ohjects atothers, they flashed with the fire of intelligon Tom Moore’s eyes were “as dark and fine as you would wish to see under a set of vine leaves.” Of Coleridge it is reported: ‘‘His forehead was prodigious—n great pioce of placid marble; and his fine eyes, in which all the activity of his mind seemed to concentrate, moved under it witl sprightly ease, as il it woere pastime to them to carry all that thought. Another friend of his writes: SThe upper part of Coleridge’s face wus excessively fine, His eyes were lar light prominent” and of liquid which some eyes of fine cter may be observed to possess.ns shough the orb itself retreated to the innermost recess ol the brain.” In his “Life of Sterling,,” Carlyle introduces his famous description of Coleridge’s appearance, he deep eyes, of alight hazel, were,” he says, *as full gf sorrow as of inspiration; confused pain looked majority of the board will oppose the o mildly from them, us in a kind of mild if it is attempted, In advance of the mo astonishmeat.” ing the verdict has gone forth that r,}lus on The eyes of K coal must bo made In_accordance with tno [ - B PSS recomwendatious of Sceretary Garber, given | el 10 the puolic three months ago. and glowing The banking board of the state banking de- | tive. partment. now has the names of a number banks doing business in the state thut wdve tise a bigeer capital stock than they possess or have authorized. Accordingly notices will be sent to them that such deception is con- it trary to the spiritof the banking law, aud M ELGROAD that it must be_stopped or they must suffer | head (and 1 hav, the penaity. ‘The necessary resolution wiil | are thoso of T be passed ab the meeting of the board this | the testimony week. 1f such banks wish to coutinue theic | seviption of the *‘Chelsen Sug capital stock as_advertised they will do well | Jaeturer at Willis' rooms, we to meet in advance and chango their articles | yillowing: *There he stood, rugzod of Gl B i by i brow abrupt like a low eliff, overoyes decp-s-t, large, piere- tween blue and dark gray, full of ing fire.” Leigh Hunt. in his‘*Autobiography,” spenking of Wordsworth’s appenranco, *i never beheld eyes that looked 50’ inspired orsupernaturai, They were like fives bulf burning., half smoldering, with a soet of acrid fixwire of regard, nd seated at the furth end of two cavern: One might imagine Ezekiel or | 1h to have such eyes.” Walter Scott say Burns: “There was o strong expression of sense and e S s lineaments; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poeti- cal character and temperament. 1t was large, and of a class that glowed (I sa. literally glowed) when he spoke with feoling or interest. 1 never saw such another eye in a human head, though [ nave seen the most distinguished men of my time.” The sint- Boards, Some day durlng the week the board of public lands and buildings will have the uodesirable duty of passing upon the un- pleasantness existing between the associate boaril of charities and the board for the Home of the Friendless. It is said that the bourd will decide that so Jong as the Home of the Friendless is supported by state ap- provriations, it must receive and provide for chiiaren born at the Industrial home at Mil- ford. “Tuesday or Wednesday the state board of transportation _will elect its permanent and vote o sustain the o order for a reduction of freight rates on coal. *There is soune talk, however, that an effort will be made to raiso the schedule on hard coal on the ground that it is a luxury and, 8o to speak, a product of foruign marts. But it is thousht that u re described by us ‘‘meilow and sensi- Cowiden Clarke states that they fa brown color, or dark hazel, thus contradicting Mrs. Proctor’s asser= y were “olue.” eyes, In every sense of the Succes-fi1 -t te C nvention. The state convention of the Young Wom- an’s Christian ussociation closed tod At o'clock this morning the consecration meet- ing was beld 1n the basement of tho Con- gregational church and led by Mi Duon of Chicago, the nationul sec the association. At 3 o'clock thbis aftercoon gospei meet- ings tvere beld, the one for women at the First Congregational church and the one for young girls at the First Presbyterian chu! The former was led by Miss Nuomi Kn of Cnicago, and the latter by Miss k. k. Campbell of the China inland mission. This evening the exercises at -t. Paul's wore led by Miss Nettie Dunn _assisted by G. F. Fisher, state secretary of the Young Men’s Christian association of Kunsas. Miss F. E. Campbell, assisted by President W, . Ringland of Hastings colleze led the exer- cises ut the First Presbyteriun church aud Miss Naomi Knight, assisted by Miss A. M. Reynolds, state secretary of the Young Women's Christian association of Iowa, at the Congregational church- 4 At the close of those exercises tho dole- ates adjourned to the Congregational church for the furewell ‘meeting. All repurts indi- cuts a successful conveation and a corre- sponding happy tinale. OMAHA, MINNEAPOLIS, DENVER, ese Are Three of the Liveliest of Cities in the West, “How do you find Detroit after your absence of six years ?”7 was asked last night at the Russell house of Mr, John H. Doonch, a vesident of this city, who, for the period above menuoned, has traveled extensively over thie west, says the Dotroit Free Press. 1 find o wonderful improvement, In- deed, I hardiy knew the city. When I left Detroit six years ngo she was an old, fogy place. But I must confess that hummer now."” nd the west?"” I'he weat is alive with all sorts of business ventures. In many respects tho wost is ahead of the east,” City News and Notes. General Van Wyck was the guest of Ed Roegen last night. George S, Pisner, state sccrotary of the Young Men’s Cnristian assciation of Kan- sas, addressea the young men of Lincolu this afternoon, The Burlington flyer now runs wi Hastings, ‘The new time table indi arrival and departura of thirty-cight trains at the depot each day. Arrangements have been compl Christmas festival at which the great.orato- rio, *Tho Messiah,” will be rendered by a Dbrilliant cast of professional soloist: 1v will be under the auspicos of the Lincoln orato- Lo gidlll 4 rio society, comprising a brilliant chorus, What, in your _opinion, are the The Nebraska conservatory of music will m citles of the wost? Gl bo thrown open to the public tomorrow aft- F'rom the standpoint of trade? ernoon at 2 o'clock., At 2:80 addresscs will Yes, sir.” be delivered by prominent orators of the | ‘“*Minneapolisis thegilt-edged jobbing city, and at 8 o'clock in the evemng the fuc- | town for the traveiing man. [3ut for :;uv_ :maflogefi-m p;‘rll]é:l will be followed | gepuine enterprise, thrift and pros- Tho Rt. Rov. Thomas Bonaeum, bishop of | Pyep,co mone Mo 1o Denver “and Lincoln, returned from the Catholic ecenton- s nial at Baltimore lust evening. e was ao- Ths Cuban Disturbances. companicd by the Very KRev. Father Straub | 1 cicoxyiLie, Bla, Nov. 25.—Tho steam. of the province of Pitsburg. Tho bishiop ¢ ehiribn AT A anuounces the arrival of wwo young Hobe. | 82D Olivetto arrived at Koy West today mian priests. One will be statioved at Crete | directly from Havaoa and brings the ine und the othor will assume the pastorate of | formation that the Cubun disturbauces wero Mo.chipeh of BL Evaicia doifaiaes . of sy conflued 10 rivts in San Cristabel, owing to . aifferences urising among the aldormen The imtial step for probating Guy A. | there. “I used Hood's Sarsaparilla for catarrh, and recetved great Telief and beneft from it. coustitutional rem- | The catarrh was vory disigreeable, espectally i Is a constitutlonal and not a local disease, | and therefore It cannot be cured by local ap plications, 1t requires edy like Hlood’s Saxsaparilla, which, working throngh the blood, eradieates the impurity which eauses and promotes the disease, and effccts a permanent cure. Thousands of |y head in the morning by hawking ard spit- ‘people testify to the suceess of Hood’s Sarsa- [ting was painful. Hood's Bursayarilla gave parilla as a femedy for eatarrh when other | mo relief immediately, while in time 1 was preparations biad falled, Hood's Sarsaparilla | eutirely cured, 1 think Hood's Sars.parilia also bullds up the whole system, and makes | is worth its welght i gold.” Mys. . 5. G uw, you feel renewed In hiealth and strength, ! 1020 Eighth Bureet, N. W., Wasbiog.on, D. C, Hood’s Sarsaparilla Bold by alldraggists. §1; slx forgs. Prepared only | Rold by ull droggls by C. 1. HOOD & CO., Apothecaties, Lowveli, Leas 100 Doses One Dollar in the winter, eausing constant discharge from my nose, ringing noises in my ears, and pains o the back of my head. The efloct to clear 81 3ixtorgs. Prepared ouly Ly O, L HOUD & CO., Aputhecarics, Jowell, Mast 100 Doses One Dollar