Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 2, 1890, Page 5

THE DATLY BEE. " B. ROSEWATER, Bditor. - 1 UBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION Daily and Sunday; One Vear 8ix months Three Months Emnday | One Year, Weekly Ijee, One Yer with Promiim, OFFICES, Omaha, Nee Bujlding, Chicago Office, 5 Ro oke New Vork, Rooms 14 and ‘Washingron, No. 513 ¥ Council Nuts, No. 1 Bouth Omaha, Corner N nilding, Tribuna ' Bullding. CORRI PONDEN . All communications relating to news and adl. torinl matter should be nddressed to the Editor: ial Depar nces should The Beo Publishing Company. Omaha. Drafts, chocks and Postoffies ord: 10 e made payable to the order of the Company Tlie Bee Pablishing Company, Propriotors, Tiek Buildine Farnam and Seventesnth Strests ANl business be nadressod 1 ' The Bee on the Trains. There is no exenso for a failire to got Ti e B on the trafns. Al nowsdenlors have been nott flod to carry & full supply, Travelors who want “iE BEE und can't get 1t on trains whera other Omaha_papers are carried are requested to notity Tie ek, Please be particular to glve in all onses full information as to date, raflway and number of train, (i1ve s your name, not or publication or un. NOCCONBATY UAe, DULAR & GUAFALLY Of G00A fAIth THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement ot OCirculation State of Nebraska, Tsd County of Douglas, (%% Georen B. Tzschuck, secretary of Tie Bex Publishing Company, 068 solemnly swear that the actual cirenlation of Tik DAILY BEE for the week ending Fabruary 1, 183, was as tollows: Sunday, Jan. 20 670 Sworn to before me and subs: preseice this st day of Februa; (Beal.] nghs, 29chick, being duly’sworn, do- poses and suys that ho 18 secrotary of Tie BER hublishing Compauy, that the actual average daily circulation ot Titk v_I3EE_for the ith of Januar. Fobruary, 18, 1864 coples: for 188 for dune, 1880, 18,58 S coplos: for Angist, ber, 1860, for No- for Decomber, 1880, : onaE B, TZSCHUCK. to before me and subscribad in my ‘0 this 4th day of January, A. D.. 180, N. P. Feix, Notary Public. s groundhog 1s looking for his shadow this morning. Will he see it? April, col Tor Jully, 188), 14, 51 "coplos: for’ Septes for October, 180, {4 %0, 19,310 cople copies vember, 20,048 copi is quiet on the Great Muddy just I Not a word about the new bridge. AL nov TrE moment the poetic fever devel- oped in Queen Victor cute rhouma- tism set in. = Providence moves in mysterious way: ;1P it before the people of Owmaha hat they must tuke steps for annexing South Omaha now, or for ten years hold their peace. Tne weekly bank statement shows the reserve has decreased $763,000, The banks now hold $14,068,000 in ex cess of legal requirements, For a midwinter edition THE S DAY BEE certainly affords ample proof that the business men of Omaha are not lacking in appreciation of a metrovoli- tan daily, and the advertising patron - age they are bestowing so liberally is sure to yield profitable returns. THE SUNDAY BEE is read by fully fifty thousand people and that is only esti- mating a fraction over two readers for each paper that is turned off the press. IF THE present organization of the council was effected by bribery as is charged by Councilman Ford, tho natural inference is that the boodle was put up by contractors who are in- terested in controlling the council, and of course expect to get back their con- tribution. with interest. After all, nobody need be surprised. When the city was turned over bag and baggage o the contractors, Omaha was left at their merey ‘WYOMING has the distinction of being the only section of the country where the right of suffrage is enjoyed by both sexes. Women have all the rights they want and they exercise them with de- cided effect. Their influence is felt in ¥ho legislatures. A bill has been 1n- “roduced to bring both sexes into close, harmonious relations. It is proposed to tax all men over the age of thirty years who are not married. In other words those who enjoy the luxury of ! bachelorhood must pay for it, or marry. At prosent there are more men than " women in the territory, consequently the measure will stimulate immigration and create a lively flutter among the retired maideas of the east, —— THE prohibitionists hold both ends of the clubin the Iowa legislature. As long as the deadiock continues legisla- tion is impossible, and the men who were elected in response to the demand fora change will accomplish nothing. It is diMcult to see what the democrats and independents will gain by holding out for the presiding officer. The gov- ernor cannot take office, nor can the appointive offices be filled until per manent organization is effected. Sup- Ppose the tie continues to the end of the session—-the republicans will tontinue in office, Governor Larrabee can appoint Senator Allison, und the demo- crats will still be out in the cold. Half aloaf is better vhan no bread. + S — OUR charter requives the railroaa companies t illuminate every crossing of their tracks. This is us much in the interest of the railroad companies as it is for the protection of the public., Up to this time, however, most of ' the Lighting of crossings hus bequ done at tne expense of the taxpayers. Now that we are about to light the principal streets with electric arc lamps the question presents itself whother the city is goiug to pay for electric lamps across rai'road tracks? It would seem to us thay every lamp used for such a purpose should be paid for by the rail- road companies whose tracks are lighted. This can hardly be consid- ered unfair to the railroads in view of the fact'that they have been given free use of our streets and thoroughfares for right-ol-way. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE The letter of Governor Thayor to the Trans-Missouri association vigorously exprosses the sentiment of tho whole people of Nebraska regarding the duty of the railroads to reduce the rates on corn, 8o that the farmers may b enabled to market the'r crop without loss. His staterment of the situation in nowise ex- aggerates it. Tho farmers of Nebraska, as industrious and thrifty as those of uny state in the union, are in need of reliel. They have an abundance to sell, and there is a market for their pro- duet, but they cannot dispose of * 1t at a profit owing to the rates demanded by the railroads for its transportation. Thoy are not obstinate or rebellious, but they will not sell at a loss, although many of them have already done so, so long as there s a hope of obtaining fair and just consideration from the rail- ronds. They do not ask anything un- rensonable. They do not call upon the railroads to make any sacrifice. Thoy are not seeking charity at the hands of the corporations. All they desire is that the railroads, which have absolute control of the tua- tion, shall give them a chance to dispose of their product at a moder- ate profit. Thoy bolieve that the rail- roads can afford to do this, and that the result would be to the advantage of the roads in common with all the business interosts of the state. It is a fact not to be concealed, and which it would be idle to deny, that business depression is gonoral through- out Nebraska. The obvious explanation of this is in the fact that the farmers, upon whose prosperity that of all other interests in the state largoly depends, are . unable to market their most important crop—the crop upon which they rely to moet their ob- ligations and supply their necessities. Millions of dollars are represented in the unmarketed staple of Nobraska, and could it be disposed of there would be an unprecedented stimulus given to every department of business in the state that would contribute greatly to its progress and to the goneral prosper- ity. In this the railroads would prospsr equally with the other interests. On the other hand it is ine ble that if the present state affairs is not relieved the situation must become move serious, the distross more general, and the difliculties of ro- covery be greatly ittereased. [s it not the plain duty of the railroads to malke aneffort to check the manifest ten- dency to a worse condition of affairs than now prevails? The claim that no good can be ac- complished by reducing tho corn rates will not stand. Tue BEE has shown thatit is not reasonable to assums that areduction of rates will be followed by o decline of the macket prico of corn equal to the reduction, but on the contrary that the natural effect of re- ducing the freight rates would be to advance the price of corn. At any rate the duty of the railrouds tu try the ex- pedient of reducing the charge for transporting corn is not affected. ‘Thers is a serious condition demanding prac- tical treatment, and it is no time to theorize as to possible results of the only treatment that can meet the case. The railroads could make no greater mistake than to disregard the timely warning of Governor Thayer. MONTANA “ARGONAUTS." The brilliant but erratic genius who bestowed upon the gold hunters of California the classic title of Argonauts, deservedly honored a distinctive class of Americans who were world-builders in fact as well as 1n name. The golden sands of the Pacific slope attracted thousands, but only sturdy and daring men with irou constitutions and unconguerable wills could brave a trip across trackless prairies overrun by hostile Indians, traverse the alkali desort ' and climb the snow-capped Sierrus, or risk the voyage around Cape Horn and exposure to swamp fevers of the isthmus. Isolated from che world, they developed a world for themselves. Whether they were thrift- less or failed to comprehend the value of their finds, it is a striking commen- tary on the fickleness of fortune that thoso who opened up highways for the march of civilization and discovered the mines which yielded miilions upon millions of precious metal, were over- whelmed by the succeeded waves of humanity, and with few rare exceptions, did not secure that competence their labors and privations deserved. The trials, successes and failures of the California argonauts have their parallel in every mining state in the west, and ib none as dfstinctively as in Montana. In the early sixties the fame of Alder gulch attracted hundreds of bravée men, who, like their prototypes in Cal- ifornia, followed the star of hope and fortune across the plains and frequently fought their way tnrough open and ambushed foes. And with what results? Though a dozen years later thun the California stampede, the Montana argonauts did not succeed in fully barvesting the wealth which streaked hill and valley around Vir- ginia Cit, John X, Beidler, who died in Helena last week, in comparative poverty, was among the first to discover the mineral wealth of Montana. Few men deserved a greater shave of that bounteous store, yet the fatalism of the argonauts fol- lowed him and left him penniless long before he crossed the great divide. Beidler’s career in Montana has few equalsin the realmsof fiction. A deputy United States marshal in the early dinys, he was one of the most active and vigorous in bringing order out of chaos, andin ridding the young camps of the bands of desperadoss who flocked in from the south and west. There are scores like Beidler in Moutana, who failed to take advantage of “the flood which leads to fortune.? They can be found in town and country, overwhelmed by the new und grasping civilization which followed in the wake of the railroads, They lament the fall in prices, denounce the bustling busi~ ness methods of the tenderfoot and sigh in vain for the dayaof the pick snd the pun snd vhe grub stake, They come to- gether in groups, recount theadventures of the past, and bemoan the changed con- ditions which force them to the rear, In their asy they were iuvincible in "EBRUARY any undertaking roquiring courage and eadurance. Today they are lost amid the new and jostling forces that stimu- late avery channel of entorprise in the now state. They are the last of their kind. Their like will not be scen again, for the conditions which de- veloped the grander traits of their character have passed away. Yot those who lingeron the hills and valleys of Montana display thatunaffected, whole- souled hospitality and rugged honesty which comes of the sharing of a com- mon lot in a new ¢ THE M. E. GENERAL CONFEREN CE. The movement for bringing the gen- eral conference of the Methodist Epis- copal church to Omaha in 1802 should not be allowed to wane. The pledge which our citizens have given the church representatives to aid the must be reueemed and it should be dons 50 promptly and heartily as to show that Omaha fully appreciates the pref- erence that has been expressed for this city by the committee having in charge the selection of a ecity for the next meeting of the conference. The matter makes an appeal to the pride, the patriotism und the inter- osts of our people. Tho expression favorable to this city against a number of compotitors whose claims were zenl- ously urged, and whose attractions and facilities for entertaining the confer- ence will not be questioned, was a vory great compliment to Omaha, deserving our warmest appreciation, while in the event of the confecence being held hers the widesproad public attention that would be drawn to it could not fail to be of very great advantage. As to immediate beuefits, they would cer- cortainly bo large. The conference itself comprises one thousand members, and during the thirty days in which it is in session it is estimated that it would attract not less than one hundred thousand visitors. If but half this num- ber should be drawn to the city by the conference the sum required to be raised for defraying the expenses, sixty-five thousand dollars, would be many times returned. The general conference of the Meth- odist Episcopal church is one of the great religious bodies of the country, ropresenting a constituency distributed throughout every state and terri- tory and exceptionally earnest and zealous with regard to the work of the church. Tha deliberations of these confecences are therefore a subject of the very groutest interest to a large re- ligious element among our own people in every vortion of the country,and alsoattract morgor less attention frown members of the Methodist Episcopal church in other lands. It must ba ob- vious, therefore, that it1s an advantage toany city to beselected for the ses- sions of such a body, and particularly so to & young city like Omaha. From every poiut of view it is most importan t that we secure this conference, and as we understand the situation it rests whotly with our citizens to decide whether wo shall have it. Tt is simply a question of moderate generosity on our part. The sum of monoy asked of us is not lurge, and it can be raised if the proper effort is made to doso. Failure will be a reproach, and will moreover discourage future efforts to induce large gatherings to come to Omaha where a money guaranty is re- quired. It is to be hoped the movement will be vigorously pushed until success is assured. g — INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION. The committee on foreign affairs of the United States senate a few days ago reported a concurrent resolution upon the arbitration of international dis- putes. Tt simply requests the president to invite negotiutions with any other government from time to time, as fit occasion may arise, for establishing arbitration as a peaceable mode of set- tling controversies between such a for- eign government and our own. In this guarded form the resolution, il it receive no very zealous suppovt, will prob- ably encounter no very active opposi- tion. Previous propositions regarding international arbitration did not con- template waiting for occasions to arise, but by anticipating their possibility es- tablish in advance of its practical use a system of rules on the subject. The agitation of this subject during the last few years has doubtless re- sulted in creating a very considerable puolic sentiment in favor of sottling in- ternational disputes by arbitration, and 80 far as this country is concerned its example has exerted a wholesome influence in this * direction. ' But any general system likely to be ob- served by the nations under all circum- stances is quite sure to be a very remote realization. Upon some questions Eu- ropean countries of nearly eqaal fight- ing ability may now be induced to lis- ten to the suggestion of arbitration, but as was shown in the case of the recent controversy between England and Por- tugal, considerations of size have a de- cided weight with the stronger power, and this characteristic of human na- ture, quite as strong with kings and prime ministers as with humbler people, will undoubtediy con- tinue to be manifested as long as there are bnational divisions and men are moved by selfishness and ambition, ‘While it is unquestionably true that mankind is less disposed now than in past ages to rush recklessly into wars, 10 one can consider the universal prep- aration of the nations for possible con- flict without admitting that the natural combativeness of the human race, even in its most enlightened condition, is still in a very vigorous state of develop- ment. The intluence of more in- timate commercial relations and the fact that the instruments of war are vastly more destructive than in the past exert more potency in deter- ving nations from strife than aiy moral agency, Perhaps it is to be hoped that these growing influences for preserving the peace of the nations will in time become so strong that the danger of wars will be sosmall s to very raroly excite popular solicitude, instead of as vow maintaining continual anxiety and apprehension, but the dream of those who hope for a time when wars will be impossible will probably never be re- alized. Meanwhile there can be no ob- jection to the United Stutes exerting its influence for tional nrhilrn‘i promoting interna- Tne veti Prof. Bessey of the State unive': \rging congress to pro- tect the forests on tho public domain should not goupheeded. Unloss decis- ive action is takay by the government 10 stop timber depredation incaleulablo injury will roshft, The present law is a dead letter.” ['nder cover of the pro- vision allowif timber to bo cut for domestic uses| {the mountain sides have been deauded by woodehoppers and saw- mills and the duct marketed. If this wholesale thof€ ) zovernment property is permitted thgo on unchecked dis- astrous resull§iare certain to tollow. The stripping of the' Alleghauy moun- tains have been the chief cause of the sudden and desteuctive floods in the Ohio vailey in years past, and will con- tinue to menace city and farm propecty in that section of country. In the moun- tain valleys of the west, the destruction of timber means ruin. Unless the snow is sheltered from sudden thaws, floods will follow, and thus deprive farmers, dependant on irrigation for a crop, of the n supply of water during the growing season. The government still owns from fifty to seventy million acres of forest lund, and nctive meusuros should be taken to protect it from the mercenary despoilers on The Secret of the Dead Lock. Peoria Transeripts Does any one suppose the democracts in the Towa logislature would hang out so long without organizing the house if tho prohibi- tonlaw was enforced in Des Moines? Sl gk A Pointer for Billy. New York Tvibune. The Emperor William was thirty-one years old on Monday. We wish him many havpy roturns of.the day. We hope he will grow in wisdom, as well as in years, for these are bad days for indiscreet monarchs. S Geronimo the Keformed. Louisville Con fournal. Geronimo, the awful Iudian who has be- come a Sunday school teacher, shiould be permitted to deliver at the national capital, before ho goes back to Arizona, a lecture on the cvils of firewater and the "decadence of aboriginal scalving, Brains Wi Boston Herald, Astonishment is manifested by some peo- ple at the discovery that neither Mr. Blaine nor Mr. Raudall ever studied law. One began bis career as a journulist, and the other 1 mercantile pursuits. This seems to demonstrate that this is the man and not the profression that makes the statesman. TS T The Properly-Endow:d Pittsburg Dispateh. The proposition. for endowed newspapers is evoking considerayle discussion, much of which is unfavorable to the proposition Newspaper Every one will agree, however, to any plan 3\vaplpurs with brains and by for endowiog enterprise. Thp best way to do that is to preserve the @hbmpetitive system, under which the newspaper that has vhe biggest endowment of ity 80rt 18 tolerably sure of the largest financial success. —_—— The Difficulttes Kasily Eliminated. Denver Republican. ‘What the people of the north have a right a right to deman® of ‘the white people of tho south, is that they give tho negroes their full political rights. Beyond this no one has a right to ask “them to go. Short of this they have no right to stop. 1f they would give the negroes thier full poltical rights the difficulties in the southern question, as far as the north and south are concerned, ‘would be almost wholiy eliminated, —— VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. Loud in Thayer's Praise. Nebraska Signal. The farmers are loud in their praise of ‘Governor Thayer in his efforts to induce the railroads to lower their freight rates on corn 5 cents per hundred pounds. If it was dono 1t would goalong ways in reileving the present depression of business. Vandervoore Held in Contempt. Plattspouth Journal, In the Vandervoort-Rosewater libel suit some very Interesting testimony was brought out. Howevaer, the result may be the sym- pathy of the public will go with Mr. Rose- water, a8 Vandervoort 1s hed in contempt by most self-respecting people. More Than Hoe Oharged. Grand Island Indzpendent, Some of the true inwardnoss of the meth- ods of legislative lobbying cameto light in the Rosewator~Vandervoort libel case, and t0 the man who carefully reads it appears that Rosewater proved even more than he charged. It 15 astrange world we are living in, is it not? Get the Reduction Anyway. Hastings Indzpendent. Governor Thayer is pleading with the rail- road managers for lower freight rates and the grand old man’s enemios are already as- serting that he is scheming for a third term. Well, what of itd If Governor Thayer cav secure & permauent reduction of freight rates for Nevraska grain, let bim have an- otber term. Six of them, if he wants them, The Usury Law. Howells Journal, Some of our exchanges are advocating the passage by tho next legislature of a more stringent usury law, We see no call for passing another usury law more severe than the prosent one until we are able Lo enforce the one we have. The present law is violated every day 10 the year und virtually amounts to nothing, and the passage of another law would result in ng beaefit to anyone. Impraved a Cpvetea Opportunity, Bttt Quaver. 4 The Rosewater, libpl case s still hanging fire. ‘The evidenpe has proved to be an fin- vestigatiou of thg. judiciary committee of 1887, for which Mg, imomm has so long coveted an opportunity. The evidence seems to show thay thers, wus reasonable ground for the charges made against Vandervoort in Tue Bre, but it isespecialty damaging toone or two members of the judiciary cowmittee. Valentine’s, Great Obstacle, Nowfoll News. Itis gently whispered that Hon. E. K. Valentine will be a candidate for nomination a8 congressmau fram the big Third" agaiost Mr. Dorsey, E. Ki will bo hampered in the race by the fact that e will have a big tight 1o secure his own county. When the con- vention is held the battle will be between the present wcumbent, tion. A. E. Casey of Howard county sna Hou, George D. Meikle- john of Nauce couuty. Good Policy Basides Justice. Fair mont Signal, Governor Thayer has roceived & reply from General Manager Holdrege to his re quest for a lower through rate on corn, Mr. Holdrage says the mattor will be carefully considered by the oficors of the B. & M., aad a more deflnite reply will be made later, 1t 18 not only a matter of dire necessity to the farmor that the rate be lowered, but it 2 1890 is as wall a matter of financial intorest to the railronds. Thousaunds of bushels of cora are bewng burned for fuel because of the low Drico and the railroads are losing the ecarry. 10g profit on that and also on a correspond ing amount of coal. Good policy, aside from the considerations of justice will suggest to the companies the wisdom of a suficient re duction to move the crop. The Chattle Mortgage Sharks. Beatrice Democrat, A reporter for Tue Ber went among the alleged investment companies of Omata, disguise, to borrow money on chattels, and found that upon good security he could be accommodated to a §75 loan at $7 for the first month aud $5 for each succeeding month, or #17 for three months. This is a little less than 100 per cent. The bavkers should hold an~ other meeting in Omaba, open with prayer and aco if something cannot be done to ia- duce these people to raise their rates to & uniform scalo OUR CONTEMPORARIES, Limit the Harangues. St Louis Globe-Demoerat. ‘The action of the senate in bringing the di recttax bili toa vote withoutsdebate fur- nishos a valuable suggestion as to the course to be pursued in dealing with the tarifft, The tarlff bill, it is true, unlike the dircct-tax meusure, will not be the same as the ones re- cently introduced cither in the house or the senate, und debate caunot be, and should not be, entirely cut off, or even materially cur- tailod ns measured by that of other years. The set addresses, however, should be re duced in number and length. Tho Extratition Treaty. New York Tribune, No possivle objection can b raised to the treaty inaugurted by Secretary Blaino and Mr. Julian Pauncefote. It covers almost overy imuginabie offence against common law, and is open to none of the objections raised against its still-born predecessors. Moreover, it is not retroactive. Under t circumstances Secretary Blaine and Sir Julian Pauncofote are to be congratulated upon securing so satisfactory a settlemont of @ question which has given rise to much trouble between Great Britain and the United States during the past threo or four decades. The South the Worst Sufforer. Pittstrg Dispatch, ‘The south has beer left to work out its own salvation. If the southern states will guar- antee protecuon of inaividunl rights and po- litical liberty they will receive an influx of immigration and capital that will make them great. If they permit sach ucts as the Aberdeen and Barnwell county outrages to £0 unpunishea they will be avoided by the enterprise and industry of the nineteenth century, The south will suffer more from such exhibitions of pro-slavery barburism than any punishment which the national government could infiiet. A Good o Brazil. Washington Post, This lesson of magnanimity and forbear- ance, of wisdom aud jusuce (shown by our fedoral authoritios to the rebels) marred though it wag by lingering rosentments vorn of long contention and by sectional breju- dice they are slow to dic 8o long as they af- ford capital for politicians to bani upon, was nevertheless one of the grandest of human history. It should not have been lost upon tho brave and generous' people of I3; dealing with an oppouent of republicas stitutions tolerant of their development—a wearer of tho crowa so gentleand you withal 50 wise s their late emperor. The Knell of the Filibuster. Chicago News. Speaker Reed’s action, when he refused to allow the point of “‘no quorum'’ raised by the democrats in order to prevent the considera- tion of a contested election case, is commend- able. Instead of respecting the parliament- ary fiction that all members who do not vote are absent, the ‘speaker carefully counted them in their seats. Of course this rased a storm among the democrats. They uphold the rulings of Mr. Carlisle, who, as speaker, waus a constant source of joy and comfort to filibusters. The republicans mean to push matters. Common sense is on the side of Speaker Reed, who is supported by his party with nrw'!mll unanimity. Rilibustering is likely to be¢ome extinct if the republicans remain united. At present, however, their majority is small that fairness must characterize their work if they are to keep their power, True Americanism. New York World. Theodore Roosevélt set up the right test of patriotism and of duty for all adoptod citizens of the republic when be said, in his vigorous spoech before the Holland soctety, of the ancestors whose virtues were being celebrated, that ‘‘they could never have won honorable renown by doing their full sharo in shaping the destiny of the country had they remained Hollanders instead of becoming Americans.” The speaker insistea that “any European, whoover he may be, benefits “enormously when he is enabled to call himself by that proudest of titles, an American vitizen,” and declared that “if he does not himself believe 8o, then the sooner he goes back to Kurope the better.” ‘Chis is the right doctrino. And it is heartily acquiesced an and lived up to by all foreigu-borh citizens save a_little handful of crazy aparchists who would fight among themselves - if confined on a desert island whero there was no government to denounce. —_—— A MID-WINTER NIGHT. Ernest W, Shurtleff, The earth 1 wrapped in one white dream of 00, The creacent, like a broken shield of gold, Lies on thoso purple depths where star-fow- ers grow, And shines h lambent gleam across the wold. Q'er fair norizon-lines the mountains Lift Their crags against the cold unfathomed sky, Eneulfidywllh snow in many & marble drift, Like monuments of centuries passed oy. Through ghostly forest aisles, where not a loaf Tlecks with its emerald green the frosty boughs, . ‘The haunting winds with swelling tales of rief, Tha'(mwn trees from heavy dreams arouse. And sudden, by the moonlight's pallid beams, A band of silent wolves speed through the sn0w; As, over sorrow’s pillow, troubled dreams From slumber's unknown borders come and go. Par, from o distant wilderness of woods The fearless owl laughs st tho passing hour; Then silenco broods upon the solitudes, Aud wraps the midnight in her solemn power. e SUNDAY BEESWAX, Two strangers met each other on the stroet corner and were drawn to each other by wutual recoguition, *Seems to me I've seen you before, I am the Two-Hundred-Thousana Dollar Opera House,” saig one smiling, “Shake,” responded the other, cordidly grasping him with both hauds, “I'm the Raillion-Dollar Hotei.” o' “Examination week,” the dread of both teachers und scholars, has just closed in the Omaha schools. It has been a bard strain on the mental forces, as can be seen by some of the efforts to auswer the complex ques- tions which were propounded. For iustance, take the reply tothe demand o *‘Describe the scenery in an overland jour- ney from Omata w Hastiugs,” given by the young hopeful of wealthy parents. 'Ihe boy had evidently neglected his schuol books for lteriture of & lighter vein, but male a Dbrave stagger to answer tho quoestion and perpotrated the following: In going from Omaha to Hastings, which i8 not leaw than four miles nor greater than ono huadred, one would witness an_idea of westorn life, or life on the piains. First, in our sight was the groat rolling prairie and the glowing silvor rays of the most patient sun (son). We waoro on tho road now for more than tweive days when, boforo us ap peared a pond of water. Aiready our mouths woro parched. Wo proc Tt was not a pond, 1 was thiraty—kille sompanion and drank his blood, which spared me long enough to writo this story, Here is the original way in which a youth whoso father conducts a liquid refreshment stand stated *three things learned since Soptember about the effects of alcohol:" From the offocts of alcohol Mr. Butts was foreed o closed his whisky shop. From tho effects of alcohol, with gambliug with dice, cards and faro—tho games mostly played by acknowlediced professional sports opped the liconse of the Diamond this ar. s The youngster was evidently stuclkon find ing a third offect and 8o failed to secure a perfoct'* mark on his auswer. [1f tho physicians would have their way at the county hospital:] . Door keeper, (to crowd of Who are yout I'm the residine surgeon I'm the visiting physic an. I'm the specialist. I’m tho hospital dector. I'm the clinical demonstrator. I'm tho anatomical sawbone, I'm tho allopathic pill pounder. I'm the homeopathic smalt doser. U'm the massage mafipula I'm the gerwfinding prac I'm tho student exporin I'm the faith cure scientist. Door keeper: (in despair) Who in thunder is the patient? newcomers) There was a sound of rovelry at night. The gay mansion was lighted within and without. Costly equipages rolled up to the Dodlin granite entrance of the palatial res- idence and deposited their burdens of fair women and brave mou, The tintinabula- tion of music was waftod through the per- fume ladon air. The ripplé of lau:htor arose from the garden promenades, while tho patter of dauciog foet ever aud anon beat time on the polisted ball room floor. Gentle reader wouldst thou learn to whom belongs this splendor, wouldst thou know this Vanderbilt's occupation, wouldst thou take his rond to wealth! Incline thine car. It is the earbagemaster, entle one. His oftice is one of rauk, his coat of arms 18 a (s)cent, his business is a monopoly, his income princely. Go thou and jomn :the suppliant crowd crooking the knee before his honor for the sinecure which smells unto heaven, “Ha," snickered Joo IKeat, “that was ro- markably clever, wasn't it, for me to fix tho street commussiouer’s shoes where nobody can find ‘em. 1 laid awake nights aud nights thinking how to do it. Never mind how I did it, I did it. Itis doue, and that settles it. Catch Joe Kent a-napving; maybe vou don't know him. As longago as last fall, says I to myself, Joe, it's got to be done. You can't re-elect Wally—you don't know Wally, why, Wally Broateh, of course—and you can’t get yourself back to office. So what's to be done? says I It's either Joo Kent or nothin’, and so0 it must be nothin, When you step out of the street commis- sionor’s shoes, nobody else shall put his foet in ‘em. Ihid 'em, youbet, I hid the street commissioner’s shoes. They are at tho bottom of the sen with McGinty, and neither the mayor nor the council nor the city attorney can fish ’em up ‘agamn. Now what are you going to do about it’ And off went Joe. whistling, “Down Went Me- Giuty.” 2 — LITERARY NOTES, The current numbers of Harper's Monthly, woekly, and Young People are among the Huest yot published. Tho Washington Evening Star in its issuo of January 18 publishes a rocord of progross which speaks volumos for its popularity and enterprise. The Indepondent this week nas a fine story from Elizaboth Stuart Phelps, entitled *“The Sacrifice of Antigone,” Bisbop . Perry de- scribes Dr. “Von Dollinger, and Muaurice ‘Thompson discusses on the banjo. Harpor Brothers have just published **The Crime of Silvestue Bauaard,” a novel by Anatole France. It 1s remarkable for its marvelous character drawing and the quiet, delicious humor which pervades it. Sanford & Co., New York, announce for Fobruary 5 a now book by ' Mrs. Fiorence Finon-Kelly, entitled “On ‘the Inside,” which promises to excite more attention than her previous production, “Frances, a Story for Men and Women.” Current Literature maintains its high standard of excellence. The February num- ber, justreceived. is replete with the bright- ost goms of American literature. 1a the col- lection of which the newspapers of the coun- try have been drawn from lurgely. Advertising is an art practiced by many and understood by few. Printers Ink, a weekly journal published 1n Now York, indi- cates how, when and whore to adyertise, bow to write an advertisement, how to dis. play one, what newspapers to use, how much money to expend—in fact discourses on every point admiwting profitabla discussion, Sub- scription price 82, The frontispieco of the February Contury will bo a full length portrait of Rulph Waldo Smerson, illustratine an article entitled “Emerson’s Talks with a- Collezo Boy," by Mr. Charles J. Woodbury, Other notablé contributions are tho *Merit Systom vorsus the Patronage Syatem,” by Civil Service Commissioner Rooseveit, aud the first of a series of letters from Japan by the artist Johu La Farge, Among the recont accessions to the New York Dramatic Mirror's list of special con- tributors are Bronson Howard, Georgoe R. Simms, Cloment Scott, Honry Arthur Jones. Stephion Fiske, A. J. Ditvenhoefer, Edwas Fuller and Alfred’ Ayres. Tho' Mirror's dramatic essays aro interesting 10 poople that rexard the stuge as a serio, d intol- lectusl art. For next weok's issuo Max O'Rell has written an article entitled “The Modern English Stage Through French Spectacles,” - RAILKOAD RATES, A Conforence of Nebraska aud lowa Farmers Suggested, Hampung, Ta., Feb, 1.—To the Editor of Tuk Bee: We over in lowa cannot remain indifferent to the groat struggle of Nebraska farmers for relief in the matter of prices on corn. We are feeling the sting of cheapuess here in ulmost the same degree with your people. 1 hope that while the Juestion s now on, and people ready to advise us to what action, to take, thut everything possivle will be done to secure a permunent as well as tem. orary relief. It occurs to me that lows ebraska, Kansas and Missouri ought to all joln in a conference in this watter, as we are mutuslly interested, and as it is a matter of interstate regulation, it should bo backed vy all the influence possible by a joiut effort from these states to secure & reasonable rate to eastern markuts as would enable the two sections of the country (the east and west) to enlarge their ox- changes to the advautage of both and not lufura railroad interests, but in all proba. bility help them io the long run, I would therefore suggest that a conference bo Leld aud a call be,made for it as 80on as possible, ‘Lhere might be reached through this means a plan of co-operation for our western inter- ests that would be of great benefit. And the farmer certainly bas little to bope for as he 100ks to new crops to add to the voiume of the old onos and thus decrease rather than wcrease Lis profits, 1have thought over wmany wmatters too tedious to impose on your paper in relation % what might be done at a couference of this kind, and I have no doubt but it would lead to a greatly reduced rate for the sec- tious named, and a8 it has got to be about a ground hog case we might as well try it L N, Hanmis, THE CORN RATE QUESTION, Rallroad Attorneys Stirred Up by the Governor's Demand. UNANIMOUS FOR A RED ucnou/ The Board of Transportation Wil Stand by the Executlv preme Court Tho Transportation Question, LiNcowy, Neb., Feb. 1.—[Spocial to Tnn Bre.] Al classes are nuxiously discussing tho attempted reduction in the freight ou corn to Chicago and tho ecastorn markets. Ihonoed of the roduction is apparcat to everyone. The governor's last demand is arousing considerable anxiety on tho pirt of the raitroad attorneys and othors interestod, and quite a number of them came in to Lin coln today. The governor is & membor of the state board of equalizition, and as such, in conncction with Auditor Banton and Treasurer Hill will have tho nssossing of tho various lines of road in this stato next spring. It will not pay to anger him in this matter, and thoir condition of mind is surcly an unonviable one Auditor Beuton and Treasurer Hill, whe urc also members of the state board of transportation, said today that they felt sure that some reduction would be mado inside of a wook; if not, then the state board of transportation would stand as a unit in forcing u goneral rovision and reduction of the freight rate schedulos, Attornoy General Loose’s views were out. Jined in‘this morning’s Ber, and Land Cow- missioner Steen ana Seeretary Cowdey say that they will stand solid with the boara in @ united effort to give the people relief, THE SUPREME COURE. The following were the procesdings in the Supreme court. toda "The potition in tho Stato ex rel Lozanzo O. Hull vs George Walker, information in quo warranto was filed in' the supremo court today. It alleges that on Junuary 7, 1890, 15, atterlee, then county attorney of Sioux. rosigned his said office, to which the then board of county commis. sionors, appointed the rolator, Lorenzo 0. Hull, who filed his bond, had 'it approved, qualified ana entered immediately upon tho discharge of the duties of said office; that subsequently, on January 16, a new board of county cominissioners having boen installed, declared the vacancy iu said office of county attorney to bo still existing and thereapon appointed the respondent, George Walker, | Mon—Two Idcas.” who filea his bond, qualified and_pretendod to nssume the duties of said pflice. The relator prays for a judgment of ouster agains! said Walker, and that ho be allowed 10 o assume the duties of said oftice, (rom which he has been illegally and = wrongfully deposed. A motion for a renearing was filed in tho supreme court today in the case of Charles B, Rice vs John Saxon. The petition in the case of the Farmers' & Merchauts' bank of Hay Springs, error from Sheridan county, was tiled in the supreme court today. STATE HOUSE NEWS. Governor Thayer went, to Alma last night to attond a Grand Arviny meeting. I. Holgreen, county treasurer of Pheips county, settlod with tio state treasurer today, and paid him $65,075.08, ‘The Western Loan and Trust company of Western, Saline county, filed articles of incor- poration today. ‘Ihe capital stock is 825,000, The incorporators are A. C. Maynard, Johm— Wilcox, D, J. Maynard, John W. Lytle and F. H. Porter, The following fire insurance companios, doing business in Nebraska, filed snnual statements with the auditor today: London of England, premwms $5,2%.13, loases #7,057.56; Fidelity and Casuaity, New York, premiums $22,837.86, losses $3,125.81; Far- mers' and Merchants), Lincoin, promiums $00,192.97, losses i 0; Hartford Stoum Boiler Tnspection, premiums $3,815.65; North American, Boston, promiums$1,175.42, lossos $180.72; Norwich Union, Norwich, Eng., pre- miums $3,898 78; 1| 1415 'S Francisco, promiums $3, 1o: United States, Now ' York, premium: $2,18.16, ~ losses 8L200,81; Sun, Lon- don, Enug., prewmiums $6,105, losses, $5,502; Pheenix of London, England, premiums $1,352.42. losses $2,174; Southern California, Los Angoles, premiums $3,105.05, lossos §3," 043.21: Home, Omaha, prefmiums $129,018.54, losses $29,020.92. The following lifo 1asurance combanies doiag business in Nebrasks filed their an- nual statements voda, Northwestern Mutual, policies issued $1,317,354, premums $108,320.60, losses $i8,500; Massachus: Bonefit association, Hoswo, policies $141,500; Provident 'Savings, New Yorik, policies jssued £597,000, premiums $16,291.70, lossos $1,000; - Sankers', Lincoln, policies is- sued £500,500, premiums $15,55.39, lossos 7,000; Pennsylvunia Mutual, Philadelphia, policies issuod $35,500, premiums §1,280; Hartford Life and Annuity, Hartford, pol* 1oies issued §324,500, premiums $11,710, losses £2,000; Equitable, Das_Moiues, policies is- suod 897,000, premiums $3,303.93; Travolers, Hartford, accident policies issucd $3,554,550, premiums $30,082.45, losses §21,630.81, 'lifo policies issud $122,007, promiums $24,03; loss $2,000; Hanlkers', Dos Mowes, policies issucd §742,000, loss $24,000; Mutual Roserve Fund, New York, policies issued $706,500, premiums $41,185.50, loss 20, Y NEWS AND NOTES, Hon. J. G. Ewan of Talmage died this morning. ixty-five years old, was a momber of the constitutional convontion of 1875 und of two sessions of the legisluture sinco then. Ho was, the father to Al k. Ewan, Tiie Bee's correspondent iu this city who weat down this morning to attend the funeral. D, . Thompson leaves tomorrow for Now York and from thenco ho will go to Bremen, His jouroeyings will continue until fall, tak- ing o Europe, Egypt and the wost coast Africa. Ho will” return in tho fall and as- sume his position of geucral agont of the 13, & M. at this place. @The contest for the Chase and Wheelor oratorical prize at the umversity last even- ing was well attended. Fred D. Hydo spoke on “A Ples for the Negro of the South,” Miss Jossie Goodell on “Morul Philosophy,” W. ‘I Brown on *T'he Faith- ful Friends,” Miss Minnie Dol’uc on “'A Plea for Genius” and D, W. Bush on **'wo The judges were Profs, Sherman, Edgren and Haot, who awarded the first prize of $10 to Mr. Bush ana the second prizo of 35 w Mr. Brown. The musical numbers were very fine, The Kast Lincoln Baptist churoh was for- mally organized last evealng by the clection of deacons and trustees, Klder Terry of Grand Island is pastor. Mectings will be hold in Baker & Smith's hall for the pres- ent, ulthough u building project is now undor way. ‘The chicken show begins next Monday. ‘Thero are over one thousaud entries, repre- scnling every state and territory in the' Union exceptone. E. A, Clifion was sont to the county fail this moraing for thir:y days for defrauding the landlord of the Arlington hotel of & week's board aud lodging. Tho knights and 1udios of the uniformea ruuks, Koights of Pythias, had s pleasant social'at Castle nall last night, . OMAHA LOAN and TRUST (0., Subscribed & guaranteed Capital, 0 Paid in Capital ... oo .53%3!8%0 Buys and sells #tocks and bonds; negotintes commercial paper; 1 ecelves and exociites trusts: @OLs Uy LransTer wgent and trustes of COrpora- Hons; takes charge of property; collects rents. Omahaloan&TrustCo ° SAVINGS BANK 8. E. Cor, 16th and Douglas £troets. Subscribed & guarantoed capital,... $100,000 Ldabllity of stockholders, ............ 200,000 8 Per Gent Interest Paid on Deposits Loans In any' amount made on City & Farm Property, and on Collateral Security, at Lowest Current Rate FRA. NGE, Casblor, Oryicens: A.U. Wyman, president; J.J. Brown, Yiuan, treastrer, Dn‘v‘l‘?u Pnsnilelbl;vy.’l\ juas i TORS: A, ym . H. Millard, . Brkon. 5 W, Nawis, 'thos. 12 Brown, (iu; Klball, Uyw. s le't