Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 8, 1889, Page 4

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State of Nebraska, 18 or G4 cl)DI(' INMI l)‘ ’In!i C plu'{.rnr May, for ||||u 188 piX i8,73 copi : for Septem October 1889, 18,997 Geonrae B, TZSCAUCK. 10 before me and subscribed in my this Bith day of November, A D, 150, tSeal.] N.P. Fiitr.. e tor Am.;hf. 1880, k) 1 "for’ Noves Tk weekly bank statement shows the reserve has decreased $1,189,000. The banks now hold $683,000 in excess of legal roquirements. —_— Ir Omaha does not move on Dakota, Dakota will move on Omaha. The peo- ple of the James river valley aro de- termined to secure a north and south road at any cost. PIr1ssunre has set a good example by imprisoning three aldermen and four dotectives for accepting bribes. It is €0 rare that punishment is meted out tothis deserving class that it deserves to be embalmed in print. Tue defalcation of Cashier Silcott of the house brings home to the members of congress the necessity of revising treaty relations with Canuda so that Justice may overtake the horde of thieves sheltered in the dominion, THE representatives of the Knights of Labor and the Farmers’ Alliance in session in St. Louis have approved a basis of federation. The new union ropresents half a million voters, As a consequence officers of the federation will be objects of great solicitude from politicians during presidential cam- paigns. TRE mania for athletics in connec- tion with college education has taken a new and commendable turn in Chicago. The students of the Northwestern col- lego have organized a life saving crew, and during a recont heavy gale on the lake they suved eighteen lives. The risk is' no greator than in football, while the results are a credit to brave men and a Jife long blessing. ExIN PASHA, the contemporary of Stanley, successfully overcame the sav- age hordes of the jungle, smote the dwarfs and giants with equal vigor, cuy his way through open and secret foes, and braved the pangs of hunger and misery with admirable heroism. And yet he had scarcely touched the sub- urbs of civilization aftor three years of mental and physical travail when a champagne supper laid him out. The bauquet proved more deadly than poi- soned barbs of enemies or v.ho trenchery ‘of friends. E——————— THE common fallacy that there is such o thing as an absolutely *‘fire-proof building” was reduced to ashes in the Boston fire. There, as in Chicago in 1871, blocks of apparently incombustible = material crumbled to dust under the intense sur- rounding heat. A fire-proof building is ouly safe from self-destruction. It is aro not secure from without, Flanked by narrow streets and surrounding high buildings of inditferent material, it falls an easy prey to the devouring ele- ment. ‘‘The hard fact to which great cities must finally surrender,” says the Boston Globe, *'is that compact masses, separated by narrow streets, which serve as funvels to fan flame, can never be safe under any specious pretension of being fireproof. Where the condi- tions ave favorable to massing great bodies of flame, the only safety is in the good luck of discovering the fire before it gains much headway, * * * The only question belore great cities is whether on the whole it will not be best conserved in the long run by wide streets and awple provision to make buildings accessible before heated masses are developed,” Narrow streets and long blocks are the bane of eastern and many western cities. They are con- ductors of flame, chiefly because their width prevents effective work by fire- men, espocially where considorable heat has developed, In this respect Omaha 18 particularly fortunate with her wide streets, regular blocks and alleyways. The founders of the eity builded wisely and well, A BRIGHT FUTURE. The years 1886-7 marked a distinct epoch in the growth of Omaha. Tho vast increaso of population during tho preceding two years overran the capac- ity of the city and cavsed an active do- mand for business locations and homes, This demand was promptly met. More substantial and costly office buildings and stores, ornate and modest homes were inaugurated and completed durlng 1886-7 than fin any preceding five years in the history of the city. The supply soon exceeded the demand, and a marked decline followed, extending through 1888, The excess of build- ing was beneficial in many ways, It brought about a° gen- eral reduction of rents and forced land- lords to furnish all modern conven- iences to secure and hold their tenants, But this excess did not affect business the building line. True, no great undertaken. Though te cost was less than in 1887, of permits 18sucd was greate The number of buildings completed or under way this year, according to the books of the building inspector, far ex- ceed all previous annual records, and the total cost when the books are closed December &1, will pass tho seven million dollar mark. This is a record of which any city might feel justly proud, yet it bears no comparison to the grand enter- prises which will develop into actualities during the coming year. At the head of the list stands the Nobraska Central double track steel bridge with its depot and yards. The people made né mistake when they, by a practically unanimous vote, clinched this bargain, Financially considered, the pro means the expenditure of four million doilars in Omaha and vicinity within two and a half years, and the employ- wment of a small army of laborers and wechanics. Commereially, it is one of the most important public works under- taken by Omaha men. Its advantages are incalculable, for back and behind it stand railroad and industrial develop- ments of immense importance to tho city’s future. A memorable event of the year will be the destruction of the railrond “cow- shed’—that venerable and execrated eyesore on Tenth street. For this alone the people should be thankful, even though they paid a good price for it. On its ruins will rise the first union depotia the city, which, togethor with the viaduet, will involve an expense of atleast half a million dollars. The city hall and postoffice and the auxiliary waterworks on the western suburbs will require two millions or more during the coming year. These five enterprises involve an ex- penditure of nearly seven. million dol- lars, the bulk of it during the coming year. Every one of them are certain- ties. It we add to them the various building enterprises which they will stimulate, the total for 1800 will exceed the expectations of the most sanguine. While Omaha has boasted l)un little of her material progress, the thousands of new homes which dot the hillsides, the business blocks, warehouses and factories, rising on cvery side, are silent but effective monuments to the energy, enterprise and confidence of the people. The city 18 on the thresh- old of a new era of commercial and in- dustrial activity, and every live citizen should put his shoulder to the wheel and help the procession along. in structures were the aggre the tots SSARY. A bill has been introduced in the sen- ate to aid and secure the commemora- tion of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America. Itprovides for the appointment by the president of a commission consisting of two mem- bers from each state, of different politi- cal affiiliations, and of one from each of the territories, which shall have authority to extend to all American countries and to the European na- tions an invitation to participate in the commeioration. The commis- sion is also to decide on the place for holding an exposition and the purchase of grounds therefor, the land for build- ings to be erected by the countries par- ticipating to be apportioned by the president, and each country o select its own stylo of architecture. The bill proposes appropriations aggregating eight million dollars, to be expended in the purchase and improvement of grounds, erection of the buildings of the United States, and for incidental ex- penses.t ‘Whatever mny be thought of the ex- pediencyof this plan, which would take the details of preparation for the agni- versary out of the hands of congress, it is well that the matter has been thus early brought forward in that body. Undoubtedly congress will have enough to command its attention without ex- pending any time on the discussion of this subject, and members may well des ire to escape the button-holing and blandishments of the committess which will represent the several cities con- testing for the prize. Moreover there is some reason to believe that the proposed commission would be likely to reach a decision as to the site of the exposition more in accord with public opinion than if the question were left ta the determination of congress. The really imnortant consideration is whether this plan would cause delay. There is no time to be lost if the com- memoration is to be made such a suc- cess as will be worthy of the anniver- sary and of the nation, Oune of the most distinguished engineers in the coun- try has expressed the opinion that the time is new too short in which to perfect the enterprise on such a scale as is de- sirable. Under the most fayvorable con- ditions to be reasonably hoped for not much could be done in laying out and improving grounds and beginning the construction of buildings before next spring, so that only about two years can safely be counted on in which to get ready what it is contemplated shall be the greatest exposition ever held. More than twice this time was occupied in the completion of the centennial exhibition at Phila- delphia and the Paris exposition of the present year, And we must not con- sider solely our own share in this stu- pendous undertaking, We must have regard for the convenience and require- ments of foreign nations which will be asked to participate. Possibly we might accomplish without great dif- culty our own part of the great task, but other countries do not carry for- ward their enterprises with quite the vigor and dash that we do, and we cannot reasonably expect them to greatly depart from their or- dinary course for our benefit. Doubt- loss every country that shall be asked to participate in commemorating the anniversary will accept the invitation, but the matter of time will have a great deal to do with determining the char- acter and extont of such participation. The discussion of sites has been very thorough and little remains to be said in that lne. All the compet- ing cities except Washington aro ready with an ample guaranteo fund. Chicago is understood to be prepared to carry out any plan that ss Or a commission acting under y may dovise without any aid from the government. The other cities would require government as- sistance. In this respect, at least, the western metropolis holds the stronge position in the contest. This, howe y is not the only, or perhapes the most important, matter to be considered in determining where the exposition shall belocated. The government can afford to assume the whole cost. In any svent what is neaded is quick and de- DITI0. A feature of the president’s message which receivea especially favorable comment from the English press was his recommendation of an enlargement of the list of offenses for which extradition may be claimed and granted between this country and Great Britain. The territory of neither, said the president, should become a secure harbor for the evildoers of the othor through any avoidable shortcoming in this regard. A new treaty on this subject has been negotiated and will soon bo laid before the senate. This is a matter upon which the nd law-respecting people of the two nations ought to have little diffi- culty in coming to a fairunderstanding. That they have not already done o has been due largely to political considera- tions. The negotiationbetween Minister Phelps and the British government, during the last administration, proposing an extension of the list of extraditable offenses, was objectionable to a large public sentiment in this country for the reason that some of the offenses named were of a strictly political character, and as the British government would agree to no arrangement that did not include these the treaty was rejected by the senate. That action was quito generally approved. Since then, it would appear, the dis- position of the British government as to this matter has undergone some change, probably due to the influence of Canada, whose people have become tired of having their country made the refuge of American roguos. It 15 therefors probable that the new treaty will not be open to the objection which caused the last negoti- tions to be rejected. At any rate 1t is to be hoped the arrangement is so thorough as to effectually prevent the criminals of either.country from mak- ing a secure harbor of the other. The opportunity now given in this respect operates as an invitation to those ctimes not extraditable, and the existence of such a state of affairs is most discred- itable to countries presumed to be fore- most among the nations 1n their desire to punish eriminality and compel a re- spect for law. The existence 1n Canada of an American colony of embezzlers and defaulters is a reproach to both peo- ples which they should not permit to continue. — THE PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHER. The recent death of Martin Farquhar Tupper has, to some extent, revived in- terest in his writings. He was one of the most curious literary personages of the century, aud his position as an au- thor is unique in the history of litera- ture. Fifty years ago he leaped into a sudden and widespread fame by the publication of his **Proverbial Philoso- phy.” Of the same age as Tennyson, he tow- ered up among the great ones of earth at thirty, while the poet-laureate was down among the crowd, But the world soon began laughing at the proverbial philosopher and his greatness has been quite laughed away. The early relative positions of the two men have been re- versed these many vears. Tupper’s early fame and his continued popularity among a large purt of the reading public, have always been an un- fathomable puzzle to the critics, By all their wkens his book of philosophy should have been buried deeper than ever plummet sounded in the sea of oblivion, from the very first. It is simply a collection of platitudes and commonplaces in regard to life ana its phases, such as every mortal of the most ordinary intellect knows. It has no story, it appeals to no known mental craving of a reader’s mind, Then what was the secret of the wide popularity of the book. Carlyle said that England bad certain millions of inhabitants *‘mostly fools,” The solution may, per- haps, be found in this unequal combina- tion of wisdom and folly in the human racé. If people are mostly fools, a fool- ish book may be wmost widely ap- preciated, The fact that the work purported to be a philosophy had, possibly, something to_ do with its popularity. *If this is pmil- osophy,” ordinary minds would say, “‘then we too are philosophers, for. we can understand it,” real philosophy, it is well known, being something no one can oompreheud No published book sver demonstrated more clearly the uncertainty of how the public will receive a new work. The general opinion of all competent judges is and has been that the *‘Pro- Verbial Philosophy” is worthless, yet more copies of it have been disposed of than were ever sold of ‘‘Evangeline,” *In Memoriam,” **Pleasures of Hope,” “Childe Harold,” *Intimations of Im- mortality,” and many other popular books that might be named. Whatever it is, there is something in the “Phil- osophy” which meets a public want, and it is barely possible that the crit- DECEMBER 8. 1889,~SIXTEEN ics are migtakdn in their verdict of total uselpgsness, Tt Dbids fair to outlive many a volume stamped with their approval. Had Tuprhr written nothing more than this book.he might not have be- como the laughing stock of two conti- nents. But, having tasted of the sweets of fame, he rushed into voluminous print and then the jeering began. He has suffered the consequences and has been speared with jests from every quarter of Hm world. Personally,” Tupper was a gentle, clean minded in, more of a philoso- pher than a poet, who took his banish- ment from public favor quictly and without resentment. He was a friend of adstone and, while they hived, on friendly terms with Carlyle, Arnold, Rogers, Willis, Bryant, Longfellow and others, REMOVAL OF PUBLIC FUNDS. The pronounced attitude of the presi- dent and secretary of the treasury against the policy of depositing large amounts of public funds with the nationsl banks must have propared the banks for the notification that such funds would be withdrawn at intervals of six weeks, and in installmonts of not over ten per cent, Tho first withdrawal is to be made by Jaauary 15, but already the secretary of the treasury has re- coived notice from several of the banks that they desire to surrender at once all the public funds they have on de- posit, and to sell to tho treasury at an aceeptable price the bonds which so- cured such doposits, These proposals have been favorably received by the socrotary, and it 18 quite probable most of the banks will follow the example of those already heard from. There has been some apprehension expressed that the withdrawal of these deposits would unfavorably affect the money market, but if the banks genor- ally sell their bonds to the treasury the result will be to help the money mar- ket, since disbursements for the bonds which secure the deposits will take a larger amount out of the treasury than will be returned to it. The obvious pol- licy of the banks is to get rid of their bondsas promptly as possible, since there will bo u reduction of ous per cent in the premium paid on four per centsafter January 1, when the next quarterly in- terest falls due. The last national republican pl took very positive grounds agai deposit of public funds with \hu banks, as this had been done by the t ad- ministration of the tronsury, and the action now taken shows that this decla- ration of the varty is to be respected. Earlier action was not practicablg, and although the present time appeared to some not quite auspicious for instituting a withdvawal, the promise is that no harm will result to the money market, but possibly bene- fit. Atany rato the policy of deposit- ing large amounts of public funds with the banks, which both the pre dent and secretary of the treasury re- gard as pernicious, is to be abandoned, and that done it, mll doubtless never be resumed. —— ToE indicatiobs point strongly to the early admission of Idaho into the unon Republicans ave disposed to act promplly and give the people the right to shape their own destinies. It is not likely that Idaho will be admitted alone. The claims of Wyoming canuot be ignored. ‘With a population aimost as great as Idaho she outranks the mountain locked territory in resources, and is equally capable of supporting a state govern- ment. A difference of a few thousand in population cannot be considered. The material wealth, the growth and de- velopment shown in the past few years and the certainty of a continuance, is sufficient warrant for congress to clothe both territories at the same time with the responsi- bilities of statehood, provided the stand- ard of population applied to the Da- kotas, Montana and Washington, is ig- nored. Doubtless the democrats will attempt to squeeze in New Mexico and possibly Utah, but the character of a majority of the population of both ut- terly unfits them for the rights and du- ties of statehood. The people of Iduho and Wyoming belong to that class of world-builders who carried civilization into the wilderness and laid wide and deep the foundation for the prosperous communities which dot the mountains and valleys today. They opened the way; the multitude followed, and by their indifference to pioneer hardships, their endurance and their thrift, have earned the full measure of American citizenshiv, ELECTRICIANS realize that they can- not long maintain the overhead wire system. The dangers to life and prop- erty are 8o great that mutticipal author- ities cannot long resist the popular demand for grounding the wires. For this reason inventors are experimenting and investigating new methods to meet the inevitable. How to dispease with the trolley system of electric propulsion is the most difficult problem to solve. The storage battery system is a failure 80 far, owing te tHe great weight of the battevies. Recent tests show that an underground method of propulsion is not only possible but practicable, A New Jersey inventor has demonstrated that a powerful ¢urrent can be carried between the rails without endangering life, Itisa conduit system, consisting of a copper rod apd brass plates. The conduit is without a slot, and is water and airv tight. Counection between the copper rod and brags plates isformed by permanent magnets preceding the brushes under thigcar. As soon as the car passes over one of the strips the levers drop of their own weight and break the eircuit in the conduit. This prevents the current from extending to the rails or along the surface of the conduit. Of courss this system is not without objection, but it serves to show that electrigians are fully alive to the necessity of abandoning overhead wires. — OMAHA can have the general confer- ence of the Methodist Episcopal chureh in 1892, upon the one condition that the city will guarantee the expenses, which itis estimated will amount to about thirty-five thousand dollars. This is a small consideration to pay for so dis- tinguished and important a gathering, and it ought to be safe to presume that no diMeculty will be found in securing the required sum, The confor- once numbers nearly a thousand members and always attracts a much largor number of visitors, Its scssions usually occupy a month. Omaha has had a number of notable gatherings, but none which offered so good an op- portunity as would the meeting of this conference here to extend the reputs tion of the city for attractiveness and hospitality to every quarter of the country. The committee charged with selecting the place for the next confer- ence have signified its preference for Omaha over many and strong compoti- tors, but with the understunding that the necessary financial guarantee will be given. An effort to meet this re- quirement should be promptly ente upon, and if properly and actively pur- sued there can be no doubt of succoss, BEE FLATS, All St. Petersburg is sneezing with influ- enza, The czar must have taken a pinch of suuff, 1f the story about tha youngest Gould's re- cent Wall street,exploit is true, Kddie must take his papa for a Jay. Notwithstanding the t that both Dako- tas voluntarily went dry they are now ar- dent supporters of the irrigation movement A California town thrives under the eu- phonious name of Tail Holt. Its founders probably imagined they had a down hill pull on a boom . The magnetic little Baltimore boy whose fingors stick to everything they touch will grow up to be a great and successful alder~ man if he lives, As chairmav of the board of public works tho toy editor may be able to recoup him- self for what he failed to get in the county advertising raid. The appointment of Judge Brewer to the supreme bench is another evidence that the west is belng accorded its true position as a producer of brainy men. A Peansylvania man dislocated s right arm the other day while beating a carpet. Heads of families should make a note of this for reference in the spring. The fact that Mr. Stanley still wears his linen breeches and canvas shoes would indi- cate that the baseball season has not yet closed onthe Dark Continent. If the witnesses who perjurcd themselves in the Cronin case are to be prosecuted, there is a prospect that the majority of Chicago's saloon population will go to the penitentiary, George S. Coppin, a comedian, has been clected to the legislative council of Victoria. If this is the first comedian Victoria has ever had among her law-makers she is to be con- gratulated. The Indian commissioner refuses to renew the contract which provides Huffalo Bill with painted red men, This will be a terri- bie blow to the crowned heads of Europe and to the small boy. The convention of barbers recently held at Detroit decided that man should wear his hair short. Whatever cowboys and poets may think of it, the decision will be fully en- dorsed by married men. If that absconding cashier had consulted the Omaha gas company beforchand, he ‘would probably have left Mr. Connell’s $2,600 alone, The doughty congressman is a dan- gerous man to trific with. It is said that a scientist has discovered a process by which he can reduce a barrel of sirits to six ounces of powder. Ifthe inven- tion comes into practical use a man may carry @ four weeks' jug in his vest pocket. The Washington Post has discovered that the name *‘Chicago” comes from an Ojibway word meaning skunk. Tho dusky aborigine who christened the site of the Windy city must have got a whiff of that odorous river up his prophetic nostrils, Sixty per cent of the shoe industry of Lynn was destroyed by the recent fire, Eighty firms lost their awl, and fifteen their sole stock in trade. The business, however, has not pegged out. Most of the firms will resume and stick to the last. Geronimo may get along very well as a Sunday school teacher under ordinary cir- cumstances, but it is to be feared that his barbaric mind will lean too strongly toward a literal interpretation of the passage about heaping coals of fire on other people’s heads. ‘With the union depot and viaduct, the new bridge, the city hall and government build- i already in sight, Omaha is again setting tho pace for sister cities and the waterworks company with its new million zallon resor- voir is keeping right up with the procession, Senator Allison, it is said, is soon to marry a lady whom he courted at the foot of an iceberg in Alaska. The enthusiasm of most men would probably have been chilled into silence under such circumstances, but the senator, with the audacity of genius said to himself, *Alaska anyway."” 1f ladies generally would follow the ex- ample of the St. Louis girl who has ob- tamned a permit to carry a pistol for the benefit of certain rowdies who have been annoying her the mashing business would s00n come to an end. The masher is always, among other things, an arraut coward. The newspapers which regularly print Dr. Talmage's sermons as “spocial dispatches” and “special cables” could save a vastdeal of telograph tolls if the doctor could be induced to furnish them duplicate barrels of back number efforts. The New York Tribune finds the recent sermon at Brindisi, which ‘was duly “'cabled” to the syndicate papers, in & volume of the doctor’s sermons publshed in 1874, A Grear Savi Puck Tt's @ great thing to be a poor man, Why, inability to buy an opera box is alone a cloar saving of about §5,000, e hike olden Thread. cago Times, There are (url)’ eight languages and dialects spoken in Mexico, but ‘*‘zwer beer” runs through all of them. Chicago Tribune. Sederal hours of standing in line, together with a bad cold and a longing for death, is the price of a Patti ticket. Mr. 8. Bul Trouble, I hiladeiphia Ledger, Sitting Bull is again complaining that the government is not keeping its promises to im. This is Sitting Bull's standing griov- ance. e Unreasonable Desire. Texas Siftings, A man who was deeply in debt was sick unto death. *‘Ah,” he sighed, “if I could only live until I bad paid off my debts.” “Humph 1" sneered the doctor bluntly, “you want ta live forever, do yout" ——- Conscience's Rellef. Chicaao Times, A Baltimore justice has decided that the use of the word “damp” is not profanity, unless 1t is coupled with the name of the deity, This decision will relieve the con- sciences of @ number of men and several small boy D ized Robbery of the People, Baltimore American, The profits of tne Standard oil trust last year were $26,000,000, It is notonly an ia- Orga lquity but also an organized ‘robbery, Rreat wealth makes it a danger to publio morals, for it does not hesitate to spend ¢ forcorrupt purposes. Our ciiliza- tion willnot bo complete until such great monopolies are {mpossible, Our Orndo Senntors, St. Louts Globe-Demoerat, It is hardly to the oredit of our constitu tion and laws that they do not provide any botter way of adjusting the terms of sona tors from now states than that of drawing straws, after the mannce of the street urchin’'s of Plato’s time. pidictinc Y Value of Kentucky Children, CourderJowrnal, The Rev. Sam Joues rather took the breath away from Kentu ono of the fashionable churches on “the proper method of raising children.” An old blue grass follow said: *‘We raise horses and bring up children.” retortod Sam, ‘you raiso horses worth £50,000 apicco and bring up children worth about § a head,” COMMENTS ON THE MESSAGE. 58 Document, phia North President Harrison's first messago cloarly stamps him as a man of affalrs, which is only another term to define statesmanship, It 18 long, but so well reasoned that its length will not be objected to by its who read not for momentary for information study and cussed. ders onsation, but Every section shows close broad grasn of the matters ais It is a business xlm\mll.nl Not a Partisan Paper. New York Tribune, The message will be recowed with genoral and hearty approval by candid opponents as well as by political friends, It is in no re- spect a partisan paper. Sincere desiro to do the best thing possible for the good of the whole poople appears in all its recommenda- tions. And while there will bo differonces of opinion regarding some of thom among patriotio men, the message deserves from congross more serious and thoughtful con sideration than such documents usually receive. Not Offensive. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The message nas none of that offensive, *‘my policy,” none of that affectation of mental superiority to the people, which wa apparent in the message of President Cleve- land. General Harrison does not aspire to be *wise above that which is written” in the platform of the party which nominated him, and which was read and approved by the people who elected him, The president's first message is a dectaration of his intent to G0 that which the people elected him to do— to wit: To carry outa soundly republican policy. A Satisfactory Document, Boston Advert ise The first annual messago of President Harrison is o satisfactory document. It is comprehensive in scope, discrect and con- servative in manner and tone, and at the samo time 1t gives utterance to positive recommendations of policy on nearly every prominent question now agitating the people. Up to the Average. Washington Post, The message as & whole is well up to the averago of the best of similar documents. It is neither an exhortation nor a_declamation, but plain, if not always forcible of specch, business-like in sentiment, less partisan than the party which the administration repre- sents,' and calculated rather to challenze discussion than to provoke sentiment on the part of those who differ from it. Should He Read. Minneapolis Tribune., It is a disgrace when citizens of the coun- try do not understand the bearing of the uppermost public questions. President Harrison has given us an interesting and valuable resume of our national situation and it should be known and read of all won. tadbbaion AS OTHERS SEE US. She 1s Already There. Chicago Tribune, Omaha is becoming one of the most prom- inent young giauts in Uncle Sam's body- guard. Oan't Have Our Bill Minneapolis Tribune, Buffalo Bill will be obliged to decline éx- Queen Isabella’s proposal of marriage. He has a Mrs. Bill aad several littlo Bills. Omaha's Disgrace. Secward Republican. Ttis claimed that Muyor Broatch turned against Linmnger aud knifea him, It is a pity that 80 good & man as George W. Lininger had to be defeated. But you never can ex- pect much of Omana, 1t Gets Pretty Oaloric. Fremont Tribune, Omaha’s plan of bolding its municipal elec- tion in the dead of winter 1s likely to result in abig savingof fuel. There is no place on earth where municipal elections are hotter to the cubic yard than in Omaha. Wholly Indefensible. Lincoln Jowrnal, The Omaha papers intimate that a large number of the guests that participated in Mr. Limuger's Thanksgiving dioner went to the polls on Tuesday and voted and worked against him., This was wrong, wholly inde- fensible. The Arab will not botray even a mortal enemy after eating salt with hiwm. They should not have attended the banquet if they had made up their minds to stick their knives into the giver of the feast, which was designed as a clincher of peace and amity. An Object of Pity. Hastings Nebraskan. ‘The city election in Omaha resulted in a great victory for the democrats, who elected Mayor Cushing, a very wealthy man and o railroad contractor over Mr, Lininger, & leading business man and generous ciuzen, who been closely identified with the material development and advancement of the city. He was supported unquestionably by the best and most respectable element of the city, which had arrayed against it all the bummers and toughs of the town. Omaba is to be pitied, Political Judases, Fremont Fladl, According to Tie Beg Liuinger was most brutally treated by renegade republicans at the late Omaba election, and o & column article in that paper they are roasted brown s a spitted trout. And they are properly roasted. Men who will pledge faith and swear allegiance only to desert and betray are as nearly Judas Iscariots as it is possible for merely betrayers of humanity to be- come. ‘They should use their silver to buy ropes that would break, so that they might also split open by the fall. Moonlight in Deceémber. G, Whittier—Snow Bownd, The moon above the eastern wood Shone at its full; the nill-rango stood Trauvsfigured in the silver flood, Its blown suows flashing cold and keen, Dead white, save where some sharp ravine, Took shadow, of the sombre green Of hemlocks turned to pitehy black Agaiust the whiteness their back, Tor such a world and such a night Most fitting that unwarming llzhll Which unlr soemed where'er it 1 To make the coldoess visible. COUNTRY BREEZES, Progress at Clearwater, Clearwater Messag Tt was an interesting sight Wednosday at= ternoon to watch Mossrs, Marks, Libby and Hansen lay on the mortar at the school houss, A Cruel Necessity, Ulysses Dispateh, Tearfully, but cheerfully, wo surronder the Dispatch into the hands of our advertise ing patrons for the next month. Have pa- tieuce, kind readers, whilo we carn a ton of conl., A Niobrara Socioty Ltem. Niobrara Pioncer, Young man in town who has nearly roached his majority, and wishing to Yo ready for the great event, has invested in a pair of old-fashioned grandpa pants, know n as “‘barn door™ pant lins for repairs, There Unclo Slasor them They need modera hinges. Didn't Know It Was Loaded. Aurora R Somo imp of darkness—male or fomale or Voth—succcoded last weok in playing it vretty fine on this editor, by sending to this paver some verses, which when road in o certain way were not very complimentary to tho editor, or tho author of the vorses either. We supnose this was all intended as a joke; and if 80, 1t will be passed by us as such. Of course the verses were not written by the person who signed herself “The School- ma'am," as the secrot of the plot was first given to the public from the Sun offico—but it was a joke and we shall remombor it as such, though it was most diabolical and blood-thirsty, ablican, Lieft in the Cold. North Platte Telegraph. It was intended at first to have the wed- ding a very quiet affair, but as the time drow nearcr the preparations began to as- sume an elaboration of atyle which some- what smashed the original slate. Howover, the nowspaper fraternity was not even ace corded the privilego of representation, as is the usual custom upon such occasions as this, and if we should leave unsaid things we might have said in this article, our read- ers will readily undorstand that a newspaper cannot always report things purposely hid- den from its view, We know our lady read- ers wounld like to know how the bride was dressed and just how she looked in her ele- gant costume, which, we are told, was very rare and costly, Hilarious Mr. Smith. Long Pine Journal, Tom Smith, the notorious T. J., the great reformer of Brown county pofitics and can- didate for the postofi L the county seat, was in town Tuesd Ho camo over from the north, ho said, and was not vory drunk when he arrived, only justa little full. It didn't take him long to got in shape to want to run the town and he started out to do so, if we are atlowed to judge by the ac- tions of tho man., He resombled u filthy, bleod-thirsty warrior more than a white man, The people of Long Pine have noth- ing to say in the local affairs of Ainsworth, but when a man of great oxpoctations and aspirations will get drunk and want to kill somebody it is time to put the party foot upon his political neci. The citizens of Long Pine are poaceablo peo- ple, and are inclined to attond strictly to their own business, and they, furthermore, expect such bums as T. J. Smith to stay oute side the city oc behave lie men while here. ADECU e Ay The Station Master ot Lono Prairies (UNION PACIFIC RATEROAD, 1380.) Bret Harte in New York Independent, Au empty bench, a sky of gravest etching, A bare, bleak Shed in blackest silhouette, Twelve yards of platform, and, beyond them stretehing, Tweive miles of through the wet. prairie glimmering North, south persisf The tattered vunm‘s of a vanished t The narrowing rails that meet to pi distance, Or break the columns of the far-off rain, t, wost—the same dull gray in, ereo the Naught but mysolf-nor form nor figure waking The long bushed leval and stark shining waste— Nothing that moves to fill the vision aching Whero the last shadow fled in sullen Laste. Nothing beyond. Ah, yes! station A sUIT gaunt figuro thrown against tho skv, Beckoning me with some wooden salutation Caught from his signals as the tramn flashed by: Yielding me place beside him with dumb gesture Born of that roticence of sky and air, We sit apart, yet wrapped in that one ves- From out the ture Of silence, sadness and unspoken care. Each following his own thought—around us darkening, The_rain-washed boundaries and strotch- ing track; Each following those dim paratlels and hark- ening For long-lost voices that will not come ack; Uutil, unasked—I kuew not why or where- fore— He yielded, bit by bit, bis dreary past, Like gathered clouds that seemed to thickea there for Somle dull down-dropping of their care at ast. “Long bad ho lived thero, As @ boy had starto From lha stacked corn the [ndian’s painted fuc Hoard tho wolves' howl the wearying wasto that parted His father's hut from the last camping place, “Nature had mocked hiw; thrice bad clnimed the reaping wnn u»me of fire of lands he once had Sent I,he ‘wrnmlo—rouml lus hearthsatone beapin llu!wrl, llu\Ml faces, that were like his own, “Then came the war-thne, When its shadow beckoned He had walked dumbly where the fiag had led Through swamp and fen-unknown, un- praised, unreckoned— To famine, fover, and a prison bed. “Till the storm passed, and the low tide re- wroiog Cast him, & wreck, boneath his native sky; At this lone watch gave him gue cliauce 3 earning 08 to live—~who won the right to All this I heard—or seemed to berr—half blending ‘With the low murmur of the coming breeze, The call of some lost bird and the unending Aud ceascless sobbiug of those grassy seas. Until at last the spell of desolation 13roke with a trembling star and far-off ory, The wmlnx train! I glance around the sté- All il ul empty as the upper sky! Naught but myself—nor form nor figure walk ng The long hushed level and stark shiuing Waste— Naught but myself, that cry, and the dull shaking Of wheel and axle, stopped mn breathless haste! “*Now then—look sharp! Eb, what1 The sta- 4 uon master! Thar's none! We stoppad here of our own accord. The man got killed in that dowa train disas- ter Thi tiuwa last evening. Right thes Al Lostatfaxiand.