Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 29, 1889, Page 4

B, ROSEWATER, Bditor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally and Sunday, One Year. Eix Months ... ... o Thres Months, 5 Bunday Bee, One Year Lenie cekly Bee, One Year with Premium. OFFICES, iding. #1000 500 14 Omana, Beo By Chicago Oftice, [67 Rookery Bullding New York, Hooms 14 and 15 Tribune Bufld- ing . Washington. No. 513 Foncteenth Street, Council Blufts, N earl Stroot. Lincoin. 1029 P Sty eet, Eouth Omaha, Corner N and 2ith Stroots, CORRESPON DENC| All communieations reiating to news and edl- torial matter should be addressed to the Editor- 1al Department. DUSINESS LETTERS, All Unsiness letters and romittances should e addressed to The Tlee Pubiishing Company, Omaha. Drafis, cliecks and postofice oraers t6 e niado payabl to the order of the company, The Boe Publishing. Company, Proprietors #re Bullding Parnam venteenth ‘Ine Bee on the Tram There {5 10 excuse for a faflure to get Tip BRe on the tralns. Al newsdealers have boon notis fied to enrry & full supnly. Cravelers who wont Taw [Er and cun't get 1t on tratns where other Omaliavapers aro carried aro requested to no- particular 1o give in all cases full 0 as to date, rallway and number of (Give us your name, not for publication or un. necessary use, but as a guaranty of zood faith, ——————— e THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Etate of Nebraska, ' County of Douglas, {58 Georpe ™ 13, Tzschuck, socretary of The Bee Tublishing Company, does solemly swear that the Retual elrculation of THE DALY Beg forthe week ending November 25, 185, was as follows: Suuday. Nov. . No Tuosday, No Wednesdny, No Thursdag, Nov. 21, Friday, Nov, 27 Eaturday, Nov. 2 Average.......... GEORGE B, Etate of Nehraska, I County of Douglas, (55 4 EWorn 1o beforo me and subscribed to in my presenco this 2id day of November, A, D. 1450, Seal,] N P, FEIL, Notary Pubile. Etate of Nobraska, County of Douglas, {® George B, fIzschuck, being duly sworn, de- poseutnd says tht ho'ls acoretary of Tid iho ublishing Company, that the actual ayors daily circulation of i DArLy for the amonth November, 1:8% 18666 copiea; for 888, 8 copies; January, 1889, es3 for February, 154, 15,908 coples: h, 168, JS854 cOptes: for April, 1859, 148, 18009 coples: for july, 7 coples. ¥ori to before me ana subscribed Presence this 24 day of November, A |Seal.] Now for good government and the Nebraska Central bridge. —— THE present frigid weather had its origin in the cold and distant glare of the Jegislative factions in Moutana. — BTHE jaundiced gaslights will soon dis- appear from the business section and the glare of electricity will illumine the city. —— CLEANT. § is neat to Godliness, Phil Andres cannot increase his chances of salvation by exchanging soup for the police court bench. ———— The title to Capitol square is now vested in the ciyy of Omaha, The voters should see to it that the letter « and spivit of the grant is carried out. ———————— Tur Milwaukee rond proposes to come into Omaba with all the luxuri- aus trapping of o conqueror. Let her come, Tho ficld 15 broad and iuviting. SATURDAY is the last day of registra- “tion. It is of the utmost importance that every voter be registered. The vast interests involved in the election call for a full vote. NEBRASKA officeseekers can save postage and anxiety by keeping their petitions and prayers at home till con- gress gets down to business. The polit- _ical cleavers are shelved for the present. ely informed that n-Law Burdish keeps ‘‘a hotel,” as an annex to his groggery. Lot him keep The city cannot af- ford to tear him away by electing him 1o the council, JouN RuUsi has made a good city treasurer, He attends strictly to the dutios of his office and does not have to depend on deputies to keep his accounts, *as Jim MceShane would be obliged to do ifhe were made city treasurer, — GOVERNOR FRANCIS of Missouri possesses a long purse and a senatorinl smbition. In ordinary contests these "ingredients might Lo successful, but Senator Vest appears to be entrenched - in the affections of the Missourians and will doubtless succeed himself, S s+ Mg, W. S, POPPLETON asserts vhat _ the school bond election last 8pring wng not *‘a just criterion of the wishes of © the people.” It was sufiiciently em- vhatic to show that the real friends and patrons of the schools are unalterably opposed to additions to the high school “until they are nceded for the high school proper. The seveuty-five thou- sund demanded for the annex would he ample for a site and building in the vicinity, — . Tae SUNDAY BEE will contain a highly interesting and gossipy letter from Frank G, Cuarpenter. Init he commences a series of Washington let- ters about public men of note, society gossip, & concensus of opinion among leaders in politics and socioty of the na- tional capital, He will intGryiew from time to time the great men of the day, and his sketohes will be brim full of solid information, engaging anecdote, and abounding in fresh and readable fact. Mr. Carpenter is woll known to readors of THE Ber. He has made himself famous as a newspaper corres- pondent, He ranks with the ablest writers in this country at the present time, He hus mado several tours of Europe and Asia and one tour around the world, Mr, Carpenter has resided’ in Washington for ten years and is thoroughly familiar with everything pertaining to public affairs, In his first Washiugton letter Mr, Carpentor presents personal sketches of the candi- dates for the speakership of the house, intevspersed with gossip concerning « heir lives and public careers, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1889, DESTRUCTION BY FIRE. The present year will be one of the most memorable in the history of the country for disaster from fire, and quite without parallel 1f the Chicago fire of 1871 and the Boston conflagration of 1872 bo exceptod. The destruction ef a large part of the best portions of Seattle and Spokane Ialls, the burning over of nearly a square mile of the business portion of Lynn, Massachusetts, and lastly the disastrous fire in Boston, make a record of loss, aggregating nearly or quite fifty million dollars, not exceeded in any other year save the two above noted. The wiping out of so large an amount of property in a single year is a very serious calamity. In the case of the western cities the extent of the destruction found an ex- planation in the fact that the facilities for extinguishing fire were inadequate, but both Lynn and Boston have thor- oughly equipped and efficient firo de- partments, with an abundant water sap- ply, yet in both cities the fires easily got Dbeyond conttol and were extinguished only when thore was no more combus- tible material in the pathway of the flames. Among the suggestions of these events the one of principal importance is the necessity of better precautions against fire in building, particularly in tho business portions of cities. No building should be constructed in the heart of a city that is not as nearly as possiblo five-proof, and this is a matter which every community should regu- late und vigorously enforce. Certain re- quirements with regard to building are provided in all cities, but we are not aware that in any the fire-proof con- dition is imposed. Ordinances provide that within certain districts no wooden structures shall be built, but the evi- mple that this sort of protec- not furnish complete secur Buildings whose walls are of stone or brick, but whose iu or construction is of combustible material, burn almost as frecly as those constructed wholly of wood, and when a fice gets full head way in such a building it is the most difieult to handle aud the most dangerous to firemen. It 18 obviously for theweneral interest that all build- iugs, for business or other purposos, constructed in the heart of a city, shall be required to be as far as practicable fire proof. _ Individual interest or econ omy shoul®nov be allowed to jeopurdize the general welfare. The destructive fires of the year will male heavy inroads upon the surplus of insurance companies, but this is por- hapsnot the most seriousof their effects. Che growth and prosperity of Seattle aud Spokane Falls have been materially retarded by their fives, and in numerous individual eases the losses may never be racoverod. Such visitations must always do irreparable mjury tosome. Tiie conflagrations in Lynn and Boston will compel thousands of persons o be idle during the winter, with .consequent hardship and priva- tion to many. From every point of view these destructive visitations are calamitous, and the only compensation to be hoped from them is in heeding [ the lesson they furnish of the neces- sity of better precautions for averting them. NEW ENGLAND'S PROBLEMS. The people of New England are con- fronted by two problems to which they are giving very serious consideration. One of these is the preservation of theiv i s, which have been stead- ily declining for the last ten years, until they are now said to be not more than forty per cent of ‘what they were a de- cade ago. The other is the restoration of their agricultural interest, which has reached a very low stage of de- cline, It would be difiicult to determive which of these probloms isof the greater importance. They are indeed closely related, so that the solu- tion of one would have an important ef- fect toward solving the other. If the declining industries can be preserved from ruin and restored to their former productiveness, or noarly so, it might reasonably be expected that an improve- ment in the agricultural conditions would follow. Itis interesting to ob- serve that New England sentiment has become lurgoly concentrated upon one means of relief, a revision of the tariff. OThe iron manufacturers of New Lngland are uoanimous in say- ing that the prescrvation of therwr industries depends upon congress giv- ing them free raw materials. They as- sert In unqualified terms that if the duties are rvoetained on coal, coke, and ore it is a matter of only a short time when the manufacture of iron in all the New England states must beabandoned. Asstated by Governor Ames of Massa- chusetts it is & question with them of life and deavh. They cannot success- fully compete with Pennsylvania and the south under present conditions, With the duties removed from raw ma- terinls they might not be able to fully rocover the lost ground end put the idle mills and furnacesin operation, but they could at least check the de- cline toward ruin and hold what they have. Regarding the decline of the farming interest, the operation of the tariff is also held to be in a measure responsible for it. The principal cause is found in the opening up of cheap lands in the west and the ability of western farmers to suceessfully compele with those of the east in their own markets, but the tariff, **while it brought a market nmnearer to the eastern farmer, brought also higher prices for what he has to buy!” The first of these conditions unfavorable to the farmers of New England, cheap western lands, has almost passed away; the removal of the other is now the hope of the people of that section. Thus we see a portion of the people who were hitherto among the most uncompromising supporters of the high tariff policy “faced about’ and demanding for the preseryation and restoration of their most im- portant interests a radical reform and revision of the systom they had so long approved, It is g highly interesting and instructive fact, which contains the promise of conse- quences of far-reaching importance, It is conceivable that the immediate fu- ture of political parties may very largely depend upon the way in which congress shall treut the demand of New Englaad 1o be relieved of the conditions which are hold to be responsible for the de- clino of her iron industries and the un- profitableness of her agricultural 1n- terosts, BLUNDER OF THE SCHOOL BOARD. The blunder which the board of edu- cation has made in submitting its prop- osition for school house bonds is in coupling the high school extension scheme with the other projected and much-needod school buildings, The manifest purp-se of the board is to bull- doze people into voting for the whole job lot. Now there is no nocessity whatever for adding a wing to the high school builaing unless that structure 1s to be used hereafter as heretofore for primary and intermediate grados. That is not the design of the founders of the high school building. The lower grades have been al- lowed to occupy tho building simply because there was more room in the building than was needed for the accommodation of the high school class, Now that the high school class has bocome numerovs onough to re- quire nearly all the rooms set apart for school purposes, there is ho valid e cuse for retaining the minor grades in the building. Within from five to ten years a normal department will have to be es- tablished and mafatained in conjunc- tion with the high school, so as to en< able graduates to become practical teachers without going away from home. When that time comes the ercction of a wing to the high school building designed with o view of accommodating the enlarged wants of the high echool and normal de- partment, will be eminently proper. A wing constructed for the use of minor grades would have to be rebuilt at a cost almost sufficient to pay for a now school house, Another serious objoction to the pro- posed wing is that its construction would force a continuance of the pres- ent outrageous practice ot compelling littie girls and boys under ten to climb three or four fhights of stairs two or three times each school day, and expos- ing them to the danger of a horribly fatal panic in case of fire. A GAS TR The supreme court of Illinois has rendered a notable decision which vir- tually demolishes the Chicago Gas Trust. Proceedings wero begun n year ago to determine whether the gas com- panies had a legal right, underthe lay of the state and their franchiscs, to com- bine for tho purposo of raising the price of gas, and whether they had not for- feited their charters by so doing. The decision of the lower court was in favor of the companies, but the supreme court has reversed it 1n & seathing denuncia- tion of trusts in geueral and the gas trust in particular. The validity of the company is recog- nized and its rights tosell ana manu- facture gus admitted, but the right to buy and sell the capital stock of any= other company is denied. The purpose of a corporation must be a lawlul one. The gas trust company organized for the express purpose of buying up the business of competing companies, and all acts done by it are illegal and void. “Of what avail1s it,” says the court, “‘that any number of gas com- panies may be formed if a gant trust company can be clothed with the power of buying up and hold- ing the stock and proparty of such companies? To create one corporation for the express purpose of enabling it to control all the corpora- tions engaged in a certain line of busi- ness, and particularly a business of a public character, is not only opposed to the publie policy of the state, but it 1s in’ contravention of the spivit, if not the letter, of the constitution.” The decision is a body blow to trusts. Itis a sweeping confirmation of the principle that combinations to prevent competition und inflate prices, fostor monopoly, and are thevefore opposed to public p 1 The decision of the Illi- nois court is in accord with o recently ren- dered by the - highest courts Now York and TLouisiana, whi afivmed the broad principle that cor- porations which exceed the limitations of law and combine against the publie, forfeit their rights by their own aets, The Missouri anti-trust law follows these lines, and there is little room to doubt its constitutionality. Doubtless the trusts will exhaust every expedient to subvert the law, but with the courts and the people against them, they cannot long flourish and survive, THE attorney genorat of Towa has rendered an opinion on the law re- requiring iusurance companies to pay the face value of policies so far as it re- lates to mutual assessment insurance companies. He holds that they should not guarantee to pay the face value of their policies, for contineencies may arise ¢hat would render it impossible, The revenue of these companies is d6- rived by fixed assessments on the mnem- bers and changes occur with the in- crease or decrease of membership., To obviate this difficulty the companies will be required to alter the wording of their policies in accordance with the decision of the attorney generai. The point raised and determined is import- ant to similur companies in Nebraska, where the valued policy law is 1n force, SENATOR FARWELL, of Illinois, has elaborated his bill, introduced in the lust congress, making provision tor per- vewuating the national banking system, and will again present it in the seunate. The gist of this measure is, that 1t pro- vides thut the circolation of national banks may be secured by the deposit, with the treasurer of the United States of approved state. city or other bonds, such bonds to be passed upon asto their acceptability by a commis- sjon composed of the secretary of the treasury, the treasurer of the United States, and the comptroller of the currency. It might have been sup- posed that the very general disapproval of this plan when Mr. Farwell first pro- posed it would have convinced him that there was no hope of its being adopted. Amoug the various sohemes which huve been suggested [for perpetuat- ing the banking system, this is one of L which the predecessor of the present comptroller of the currency dismissod as being wholly impracticable. The idea of a national bank circulation secured by a promise cuous lot of state, city or other bonds not issued by the government is &0 manifestly pbsurd that one wonders that it could proceed from so practical and successful 'a business man as Sen- ator Farwell.| It can very safely be predictod that the measure will receive no more consjderation from the next congress than it did from tne last. The preservation of the national banking systom is an important question, and it ought not to be complicated by propos- ing such blundering expedionts as this one. ————— THE young republic of Ecuador fol- lows the example of the United States in excluding the Mongolian horde from its shores. The habeas corpus trick, which works so successfully i San Francisco, has not yet beon introduced south of the tropics THe letter carriors have raised a fund ®f twenty thousana dollars to erect a monument to the memory of Sunset Cox 1n New York. A grateful tribute worthily bestowed. One of the most imposing soctions in the fair of 1802 will be laboled “United States of Australia.” i Misdireoted Sympnathy. Baltimore Am pan, Sinco sympathy for murderers becamo the fashion no life now is so well guarded by the law as the man’s who bhas taken anotlior's from hin. gee s gl An Unseasonable Discuasion. Chicago Tribune. Under the usual rules the reports of the various committees in the matter of abolish- ing the deadly car stove will lLio over until next summer, e Hard on the Drug Store. Louisville Courier-Torrnal. Siiould it turn out that the § the right to buy fire-water by the b drug stores will be reduced to supplying only smail consumers, They Chicago Here “The sand-baggers are very active in New York. The world's fair subscrivtion list of this city shows, howover. that there is very Tixtio activity smong the monoy-baggers. - Snubbine Sam Again. Chicago News. Since the victories in Ohio, Towa, and else- where this fall. the democratic party has vlucked up sufiéicnt courage to resume its favorite pustiine of snubbing Sam Randall, Stanloy Mav Help Us. SE. douis Post-Dixpateh, Explorer Stan ey's roturn will be awaited with deep anxiety by u large number of peo- ple who would Jike to kuow how to pronounce the name of that place he ed the other duy, Ttisspelt Mpwapwa and the nearcst that anyone who has never been thera can come to its promdnciation is “Umph, Papa.’? THE (AR LEILNOUN “Where are you going, wy protty maid?" “Into society, sir,” she said. - “Muy I go with you, my pretty maid?” “If you've plenty of money, good sir,” she said. “I haven't a penny, my pretty maid.” 1 wish you good morning, sir,” she said. [Mr, Jones had married little Johnny's maiden aunt, and they were at the wedding breukfase.] Little Johnny (to his grand- father)—*"When are you goiug to begin on bim, grandpa?’ Grandpa—"Begin on who, Johuny?? O, on Mr. Jones. I heard you tell grandma he wouldn't be so bad if you could only put some brains in him.” [Broak- fust was finished without Johnny. ] How she flicted with me That year down by the sea, As we strollod on the wave-beaten sand! How she laughed me to scorn When, with wild passion torn, As her lover Tsued for her hand| But no more I repine, For requital is mine, 1 was never so gay 1n my lifef While my rival's success Gives nim now keen distress, For hio wishes sho wasn't his wife! When a young Greek determines to take a wife to himself he does not goa courting, vut e takes his oldest fomalo relative into is confiden d they atonce go hunting for o suitable mate for him, Marriagablo maidens are visited and silently appraised. ‘Chey receivo the old dumes courteously, an- swer all their questions and never venture to ask tho nature of thei errand. As soon as the visitors have mado a choice the wooor despatelics them again to the mmden’s home with structions t ask her hand in war- ringe. “*You have never taken me- to the ceme- y," said a married woman to hier husband, aear,” rephied he, “that is & pleasure I have yet in anticipation.” Ithink that moment in a woman's life When writhes bier soul in florcest despera- tion, And darkest gall and mutiny are rifo, 1s when, in horse car borne, sho grows uware Of the keen yet respectful observation Of the young man across; no clownish stare, But a charmed gaze of fine discrimination And rapt approval—till she fecls a glow ‘Torough all Bk being, & sofy, thrilled pul- sation, & 1 think tho shinriést anguish she can koow, Tho uluur:z pair and desolaiion, 1s when sho lopks, in sweet. shy pertur- bat on, § 1 s And notes hisgine, discerning eyes fall bent Upou the womafenext to ber, iutent, Absorbed injufsing, pleasured coutempla- tion, THE TEA., tel it USTRIAL ELD, Detrolt seatiett domand $.50 per day. Wheeling pginters got 81 cents per hour, St Paul 1?3? Scandinavian carpenters’ union. 4 A Nartulk.y..‘ wagon factory has reduced wages. San I'rancigeo has 4,000 Chinose cigar- makers, November 80 will be the twentieth anni- versary of the K, of L, 4 Sacramento, Cal,, stowecuters work eight hours for $4. Common painters at Hull, England, get 14 cents an hour. ‘Two asscmblies of the K. of L. have been organize in Ireland, The Switchmen's union pay $900 on the death of a member, The (German miner, since the strike, can make §242 per year, The Pittsburg, Pa., malsters have asked asked for shorter hours, London master lightermen have conceded the demands of the strikers, “Ihe Chinese tallors in Hong Koug are fighting against the introduetion fof sewing machines. The St. Paul Teamsters’ union runs a co- opera-tive wool and coal company. “In Lehigh county, Pa., corn-huskers get 63 to 75 conts and their board. There will soon be a national organization of the tie layers of the United States, Au advance of 50 cents a day has been given to the plasterers of Connellsvilie, Pa. Tho threatened strike of coal miners in Fifeshire, Scotland, has been averted, the mine owners having granted the men an ad- vance. Jtis said that many London unions sent their jdlo members to this country, paying their passage and giving the £4 allowance to get rid of them, It costs $1,000 for a transfer card from the Furopsan goldbeaters' union to the New York association, Cuban cigarmakers are boycotting a strect railway at Key West, Fla., becauso the owner is a “‘scab’ cigarmaker, Gilbert Delamatyr, once a promnent labor advocato and a representative in congress, is now the pastor ot a church in Ohio. The first organization of laboring people known took the shape of traaes-unions, and 8,000 years has, in all probability, p roved it the bast possible form of orgrnization. WA recuction has been again attempted by the Haverhill, Mass.,shos man ufacturers. { last spring, ure living togetler The employes strenuously object, and over 1,000 have joined the union within the past three weels. ——— STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottines, Marsland, Custer county, wants a lumber and coal yard. Contral City neods street lamps, and the News is agitating the mattor. A progressive high flve club has been formed by the upper crust of Nebraska City society, York’s mayor is preparing to bave out- Iying districts brought ito the city corpora- tion in time for the comng census, One hundred und twelve persons have been converted in arevival at Davenport, and 106 have united with the churches, Mr. and Mrs. James Artley, who separated and created such o scusation at Schuyler again at Ta- coma, Wash, Ihe Pender Grand Army of the Republic post has had the remains of two old veterans removed from the Omalia reservation and interved 1n the local cemetery with military honors One Hastings doctor has helped fourteon babies into the world this month, and if the other physicians of the city have kept up the average there have bee ) souls added o the city’s population iu thivty days. J. A. Frame joined the church at Tekamah 8 yoar ago und became very pious, but now he is missing and a number of business men Who trusted him on the strengti of his con- version are now denouncing him as a hypo- crite. ‘Lo relieve himself of further worldly cares Lew Garrow of Waketield went into a drog store and called for a dose of stry The druggist wus onto him, however gave him sugar of milic instead. Ho bid good-bye to his frieuds, took the medicine and went home to die. He is now on very good terms with the drug clerk., Rudolph Bowman, aged twenty-one, died at Shelton last week under peculiar circum- st Nine years ago he was bitten by a ake, and was sick for somo weeks, during which time his body was covered with biack spots, but ho finaty recovered and the spots disappeared. About a mo: THANKSGIVING AT LINCOLY, The Day Fittingly Oelebrated Throughout the City. LARGE DONATIONS TO THE POOR. Tho Capital Oity will Not Play Ball During tho Coming Year — Grand Army Falr—The City in Brief, LixcoLy Bureav or Tas Omina Bee, 1020 P Stager, LiNoory, Neb,, Nov. 28, Obedient to the time-honored custom, Thanksgiving day was fittingly observed throughout the city. During the afternoon stores genorally were closed and proprietors and employos devoted thomselves to the con- ventional turkey dinner. The postoMco closed for the day at 11 ¢’clock and the car- riers only made the mornmg dolivery. The banks, the city, county and state offices all made the most of the day's enjoymonts, At 11 o'clock union Thanksgiving exercises were held at the First Christian church, at the corner of Fourteonth and K stroets. Rev, I, 8. Stein, pastor of St. Paul's M. E.church, preachod the sermon, In East Lincoln union services were held at Graco M. . church and a very appropri- ate sermon was proached by its pastor, Roev. V. 8, Dean. St. Andrew's chapel and Church of the Ioly Trinity united ia services with the Church of the Holy Com- forter at the teriplo of the latter. Rev. J. T. Minehart's congregation held services at Bohanan’s hall this morning at 10 o'clock. TUANKSOIVING EVE NOTES, ‘The Pleasant Hour Juuior club gave the second party of tho season this eveniuj Iv was a delightful affuir, . Marshal division, Knights of Pythias, en- Joyed their social hop at Bohanan's hail to the fullest extent. It was one of the most t affairs ever given by tho order in this city. orham F. Betts and Mrs. Belle Seaton were happily married at the rosidence of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Weaver, 1030 H street, by Rev, K. H. Curtis, The bride and groom loft jor Denver and other points west on tho 0 train. They will be at home to friends after Decembor 10. Semmions, the clothier, proscnted Rev. Howe 100 lonves ol bread 'to bo distributed among the poor. Aunother donation of 100 turkeys was made by a Lincolu citizen who does not wish his name to become kunown, -The donations to tho poor were unusu: ally large this year and Elder Howe ex- vresses thanks in their behalf, will E. O. Brandt and I. W. Minor, members of the Western base ball association from Omaba, wero in Lincoln today to take in the &un club tournament. While here they put, out teciers on the base ball question, but failed to etrike a responsive chord, It is Kiven out authoritatively that Lincoln will not enter the base ball arena during the com- in; r. ‘The boys who carried the burde: before burned their finzers, and they sta positively that they do not cave for unother venture of the same kind. The G. A. R. Fair. } Proparatious for the Grand Army of the Republic fair by Farragut post and tho Women's Relief Corps, and under tho direc- tion of Lew Ginger, are well under way. On the opening night, Tuesday, December 17, a regular seigo performance will be given and on the day following the faic ago he was t sick with “symptoms sembling hydrophobia, und bis body became again spotted. e died in spasms, and tho doctors uttribute bis death to the snake bite Cinflicted nwe yoars ugo. The day of the wild-oyed, gory cowboy is past in Nebrasica as is ovidenced by a little occurrance which took place g X One of the cow on the outskarts of ci where the teoderfoot is unknown into town and went to a hotel for but unnounced that he had no moncy to. pay for the meal. The proprictor told the festive youtn that te would have to chop wood as a recompense for the refreshments, but the cowboy drew a revolver and declared he would not chop wood, but would make the landlord chop wood himself. ‘Lhe latter thereupon threw bim down, took the re- volver away from him and made him wwiold an axe i lively fashion, urged on by the close proximity of the cold muzzie of his'own gun, dropped supper, Towa Itoms. . McGregor is overrun with bootleggers, “en thousand dollars have been subscrived for the building of u hotel at Eldora. While out ridiog with his girl Sunday night a young Dubuquer named Taylor was halted by ambushed highwaymen and forced to yield up 830, A Cedar Rapids doctor has sold a mare to New York parties for $2.500 for which he traded 4 150 fur overcoat a yoar ago., The animal is related to Axtell, 5 A Davenport man u spent his Lhanksewving at worlk on the rock piie, because he tried 0 securo . turkey for bis ainner without paying for it and failed, § The Iowa corn crop just raised figures at 836,000,000 bushels. "It is wi 000,000 and would fill miles in length, of corn to every inhabitant in Iowa bushels 1 every man, woman, the Unitel States, William James Cannon, “the child of the Alamo,” the only mule survivor of that fam. ous massacre, & boy veteran of the Moxionn war, loog a governwment scont and inte, e ter oo the westorn froutior, aud a gallany soldior of the civil war, is now an inmate of the Towa soldiers’ home, Albert Schrimpf, aged twenty, of Musca- tine, was found dead on Burdett’s island, with a bullet through his d ho was driven to suicide by the rerseoutious of his father, who had dtiy- en him from home and abusod him shame- fully because he would not contribute his Wages to supply the old men with liquor, ned Stoutenbury and five and child in Wyoming ana Colorado. The Casper, Wyo., Mail is one yoar old, Caves filled with hot air have been d covered 1 the vicinity of Salida, Col. Wyoming needs more judges and an effort will be made to have congressact in the mat- ter. e United States fish commission car left 7,000 carp to be distributed o the streawms of Wyoming. John Allen, a hunter, brought thres bears and a load of elk hide and horns into Lura- mie, Wyo., the other day, At least 2,000 head of venison have been killed by the Shoshones in the Wind river country i Wyoming simply for their hides, A number ot nmates of the Idaho insane asylum, wiich was burned, liuve boen trans- ferred to the Wy ing asylum at Evanston, A syndicate of Penusylvania and Wyoming men has boen formed for the purpose of enguging in horse roising in Carbon county, Wyoming. Thieves drilled the safe in the postoMice at Fort Morgan, Col., and used enough powder to blow the safe door through the front window. They secured $25) and escaped. Tho total number of prisoners now con- fined in the penitentiary at Canon City, Col., is 474, the largest number ever confined in that institution at one time, and this number will, in all probability, be swelled to 500 be- fore Curistmas, Two vailroad men named Jobn Holland and L. L. Woods engaged in a drunken fight in Losb's theatre av Leadville, Col. When they were separated it was found that Wood's left ear and his nose had been bitten off und a piece bitton out of his chin. Four teawms were moving a house along a strect in Leadville, Col., when the building came in contact with the electric light wires and pulled over a pole upon which Lineman Jouu Gleason was working, He fell to the ground with such force us to broak bis back. Hoe will_not recover. Gleason is a murried mau and has a wife and one child. Wyoming's territorial engineer has called on the graneers to furnish for publication his forthcoming report, instances of remarka- ble growths of phenomenal crops. KEvery letter ou the subject will be carefully con- sidered and doubtful cases wuthenticated, if possible, An entire chapter of his report will be devoted to this subject. proper will begin at 10 o'clock in tho morn- ing with the Women's Christiaa Usion in charge. Threo thousand tickets will be 1ssued and dis*ributed among the mombers of the post and the re corps and sect to Grand Army posts throughout the state. The tickets will be sold for $1, or i packages of eleven for #10. Tickelsadmit the purchaser to the fair during its entire continuance and entitles him o a chance to draw one of the presents in the grand distribution. The presents arc donated by business men and citizens of the city. As the procceds are to be used for the benefit of the sick gnd needy there is no doubt but waat tho fair will be generously patronized, City News and Notes. Bruce Crampton, the eight-year-old son of Bir, and Mrs. J. R. Crampton, died last night of dwnther! The funeral ook placo this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The present differentinls between Lincoln and Omaha will continue unchanged so far as the B, & M. railway company 1s concerned irrogardicss of whut the intorstate associa- tion may decide upon. J. H. Kelly, a clothing thief, was given thirty days in the county jail this morning, Judge Houston has awakened to the fact that petty criminals are legion in Lincoln aud that shment must be meted out or ost-the city throughout the win- looking fellow, who gave his name ae James Stanton, applied to the sta- tion last nizht for lodging and was taken in outof the cold. This morning when told that he could go ko expressed a desire to remain longer. ‘The chief informed him that the city did not keep a freelodging house and that thiere would be no turkey scrved foo dinney. Lincoln lodge No. 138, L 0. O, V., the following officers last night Bawrd, N. G.3 R, C, Huzlett, V. i3 J. H, Thomnson, ..8.: J. D, Hurd, I Jumes Heuton, treasurer; D. B, Hyde, T. F. Lach and 3. ¥, Hennesy trusteos, 1. rwvell and Miss Flor Burtis were marriod last evening at the re dence of the bride's parents, Tweuty-fifth and W streets, East Lincoln. , elected W. H. | | ACQUIRING KNOWLEJGE, With Some it Becomes an Unoone trollable Dosire. Acquiring knowledge may bedomo & positive passion, giving us keon u plens~ ure as a constant round of gay amuse« ments to porsons of difforent temporas mont and less lofty ambition. . Yet i must not be forgotten, says a writer in the Gentleman's N no, that this is a practical world, one in which men and womoen have to live and die, so that it is indisponsablo that somoething fruit- ful should accompany the nequisition of lonrning. Prol Edward Freoman pours u perfect torrent of invective on the man who expects a eubstantial re- turn from his labors and who will not work unless he can sco that some good will result from learning. Mr. Free- man contends that any one worthy to be calied a scholar will toil merely to acquire knowledge and with o thought ol future reward; and yet it is obvious that were not some thought given to tho uses of paticut and long-continued study, thovsands of men might degene- rate (no other name 1s applicable to them —into bookworms, reading ni and day, it is true, but not incres sum of human knowledge, not enrich- ing and enlightening mankind, but all the while having to be maintained by ahe fruit of tho labor of others, Surely the passion of knowledge ns such mav be carried too far; and amount to littls more than a clever man's hobby, Have we not heard of the scholar whose wife, at the point of death, sent him an ur- gent message to hasten to her side. Tell he he replied, when with some difficulty he had grasped, &0 groat was his prooccupation, the full dvift of the message, “to wait & fow minutes.” Again came the imploring summons; again the scholar plended for delay. And now he wus informed that she was dead. Ho puused a moment, sighed, and resumed those swudi which had become dearer to him than life. There i, nevertheless, somothing inoxpressi- bly touching in the dying request of Lavoisior, that his death by the guillo- tine might bo delayed for a short. time 80 that he could complete some inter- esting o aments, and something, under th umstunces not altogether unnatur the of the govern- ment, “that the republie did not want chemis R vy SRy LONGFELLOW'S MEMORY. He Rocoznizad a Man whom He had Met Many Yenrs Before, About 1856 an | shman of letters, Mr. Kingston, visited this countr While in Boston he took oceason to upon M ductory il Longfellow with letters intro= rom mutual sequaintances in he describes the intec- his *Western Wandering® it must have beon very gratifying to tho visitor. > were soon discussing books and of boolss, the leading spirits of our two great countries. After talking for a few minutes he stopped short and said: L am certain of it; we have met before—many yeurs ago, though.’ When can that have been? [ must own that [ have no recollection of your countenance: but then,from being nea sighted, countenances do mnot make much impression on me,’ I replied. **Did you not cross from Ostend to London oue night in September, 18422 And did you not spend the first part of it on deck, as the cabin wus crowded?’ he asked. ‘L am pretty certain that I did, un- doubtedly, about that time, and I think Tmnde a'note in my dairy that I had on board a y - agrecable American with whom I had much con tion, but little thought I who it was!’ claimed, gratilied at weing so recol- lected.” THE GUNS OF THE PURITAN.G Her Armor Wil bo Fonstcon 'nch 8 Thick Alonz Her Sides. Naval Constructor Mintonye of the navy yard, has sent to Washington the plans for all the work necessary to furn- ish the barbette battie ship Pul lying at the yard, and which oviginally was built for a monitor, su the Now York Sun. It is intended she s oneof the most powerful of hor the world, Her big guns will be four 12-inch breech-loading rifles w 464 tons each, mounted in tu; the barbettes. There will ba also four 4- inch rapid-five guns, four three-pounder Hotchkiss rapid-five guns, four 57-mil- limetre Holchicies guns, and in the top of the military mast two 37-millimetre Hotchkiss guns. There will be three powerful search lights on the vessol. The side armor will bo 14 inches thick above the wat line, and will taper below line tothe thickue of an inch. The burbetts for the big guns will be ) feet in diameter and armored wi 14 inchs of plate. The armor of the turrent is 1o be 9 inches thick, the pilot house armor will be 10 inches thick according to the plans, and that of the ventilators and smoke i shes thick, Stee Is will be supplied for the smaller guns, She will have eight boile with three furnaces, and she supplied with compound engines. cach ill be - he real cost of soap is not to be estimated by the price paid, but by the results. Soap made of inferior stock, or of good ma« terials not properly combined, will injure whatever it is used upon, so it is not cheap at any price. The Ivory Soar, which Prof, Cornwall, of Princeton College, says ‘‘Is very well made, and cannot injure anything,” is certainly very cheap at the price at which any grocer will furnish it to you. A WORD OF WARNING. There are many white soaps, each represented to be * just as good as the ‘Ivory'"* they ARE NOT, ‘but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of the genuine, Ask for “Ivory” Soap and insist upon getting it, Copyright 1886, by Procter & Gamble.